Re: PATA DMA problem leading to kernel panic on reading movie DVDs

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 17:15:12 EST


On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:30:59 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

[...]

> > The offer for testing patches remains open :-).
>
> We will get there. ;-)
>
> I've reproduced the problem and I'm testing the fix currently...

The following patch should fix OOPS w/ vanilla 2.6.30-rc6 and 40-wire cable:

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix OOPS during ide-cd error recovery

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 20:29:28 Martin Lottermoser wrote:

> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 <3>{ LastFailedSense=0x04 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdc: DMA disabled
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-io.c:872!

It is possible for ide-cd to ignore ide_error()'s return value under
some circumstances. Workaround it in ide_intr() and ide_timer_expiry()
by checking if there is a device/port reset pending currently.

Reported-by: Martin Lottermoser <Martin.Lottermoser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
---
in the longer-term ide-cd should be fixed to not do such things
(too invasive for 2.6.30 and 2.6.29)

drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ void ide_timer_expiry (unsigned long dat
}
spin_lock_irq(&hwif->lock);
enable_irq(hwif->irq);
- if (startstop == ide_stopped) {
+ if (startstop == ide_stopped && hwif->polling == 0) {
ide_unlock_port(hwif);
plug_device = 1;
}
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ irqreturn_t ide_intr (int irq, void *dev
* same irq as is currently being serviced here, and Linux
* won't allow another of the same (on any CPU) until we return.
*/
- if (startstop == ide_stopped) {
+ if (startstop == ide_stopped && hwif->polling == 0) {
BUG_ON(hwif->handler);
ide_unlock_port(hwif);
plug_device = 1;

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