Re: [PATCH 3/3] ide-{cd,floppy}: do not map all cmds to an sg

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Mar 08 2009 - 03:54:03 EST


On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Unrelated to the original issue that the patch tries to fix
> > > (sg mapping no data commands which OOPS-es w/ DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y):
> > > - moving ide_init_sg_cmd()+ide_map_sg() to ide_issue_pc()
> > > - converting the code to use blk_rq_bytes()
> >
> > aah, ok, now I could get exactly what you meant :). However, (!) ide-floppy is
> > potentially broken in the same way for data-less cmds since we unconditionally
>
> Indeed, you are right but it seems that this is not a new problem.
>
> Wait... it makes things "worse" as there should have been 3 patches:
> (IOW _three_ patchpoints! ;):
>
> - ide-cd fix for problematic patch

see below

> - ide-floppy fix for mainline

ide-floppy is still royally broken when reading the partition
information - I've been staring at traces for a while yesterday and
it looks pretty hairy. What is more, it needs that same fix for
DEBUG_VIRTUAL as ide-cd since I could reproduce it yesterday. Do you
still want that for the merge window or you wanna wait until its
properly fixed?

> - ide-atapi cleanup for pata tree

postponed for now.

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From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:35:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ide-cd: do not map dataless cmds to an sg

since it oopses on the virt_to_page() translation check when
DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
index 091d414..35729a4 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -916,9 +916,11 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_cd_do_request(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq,

cmd.rq = rq;

- ide_init_sg_cmd(&cmd,
- blk_fs_request(rq) ? (rq->nr_sectors << 9) : rq->data_len);
- ide_map_sg(drive, &cmd);
+ if (blk_fs_request(rq) || rq->data_len) {
+ ide_init_sg_cmd(&cmd, blk_fs_request(rq) ? (rq->nr_sectors << 9)
+ : rq->data_len);
+ ide_map_sg(drive, &cmd);
+ }

return ide_issue_pc(drive, &cmd);
out_end:
--
1.6.1.3


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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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