Re: [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

From: Chris Frey
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 00:49:16 EST


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:14:28PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you please try this one then? It seems to work here but I can't
> reproduce the original problem reliably so I'm not really sure.
>
> Thanks.
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> index 1bcd208..9734994 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ struct ubd {
> struct scatterlist sg[MAX_SG];
> struct request *request;
> int start_sg, end_sg;
> + sector_t rq_pos;
> };
>
> #define DEFAULT_COW { \
> @@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ struct ubd {
> .request = NULL, \
> .start_sg = 0, \
> .end_sg = 0, \
> + .rq_pos = 0, \
> }
>
> /* Protected by ubd_lock */
> @@ -1228,7 +1230,6 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
> {
> struct io_thread_req *io_req;
> struct request *req;
> - sector_t sector;
> int n;
>
> while(1){
> @@ -1239,12 +1240,12 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
> return;
>
> dev->request = req;
> + dev->rq_pos = blk_rq_pos(req);
> dev->start_sg = 0;
> dev->end_sg = blk_rq_map_sg(q, req, dev->sg);
> }
>
> req = dev->request;
> - sector = blk_rq_pos(req);
> while(dev->start_sg < dev->end_sg){
> struct scatterlist *sg = &dev->sg[dev->start_sg];
>
> @@ -1256,10 +1257,9 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
> return;
> }
> prepare_request(req, io_req,
> - (unsigned long long)sector << 9,
> + (unsigned long long)dev->rq_pos << 9,
> sg->offset, sg->length, sg_page(sg));
>
> - sector += sg->length >> 9;
> n = os_write_file(thread_fd, &io_req,
> sizeof(struct io_thread_req *));
> if(n != sizeof(struct io_thread_req *)){
> @@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
> return;
> }
>
> + dev->rq_pos += sg->length >> 9;
> dev->start_sg++;
> }
> dev->end_sg = 0;



I tested this patch, on 2.6.35.5, as heavily as I could today, and
was unable to reproduce the filesystem corruption.

Seems to be fixed. :-)

Thanks!
- Chris

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