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    SubjectPATCH: linux-2.5.2-pre11/drivers/block/loop.c -- garbage reads
    	linux-2.5.2-pre11/drivers/block/loop.c returned incorrect data
    for reads from any loop device that was mounted on a block device,
    such as a disk partition. The bug is the problem that I asked about
    yesterday where do_bio_blockbacked in loop.c would transfer no data
    because bio->bi_idx was nonzero (or, more precisely, always equal to
    bio->bi_vcnt). Here is a test case that reproduces the problem:



    #!/bin/sh
    # testdev can be any existant device that has a first sector
    # that is not all zeroes. We only need read access to it for this test.
    testdev=/dev/discs/disc0/part1
    set -e
    dd count=1 if=$testdev of=/tmp/first_sector
    losetup /dev/loop/0 $testdev
    dd count=1 if=/dev/loop/0 of=/tmp/first_sector.loop
    losetup -d /dev/loop/0
    cmp /tmp/first_sector /tmp/first_sector.loop



    It turns out that the value of bio->bi_idx is correct.
    The "bio" variable in that routine refers to the I/O operation
    on the underlying device (not the loop device), and the I/O
    operation has completed when do_bio_blockbacked has been
    called for a READ. do_bio_blockbacked should be looking at
    rbh->bi_idx instead (rbh is the operation on /dev/loop/nnn,
    which has not yet completed). I have attached a patch below
    which does this, and I have verified that it fixes the test
    case and have used it in mounting a filesystem as well.

    By the way, there are plenty of other problems with
    loop.c, such as the fact that it hangs my note book computer
    in "disk I/O" (presumably to /dev/loop/0) every time it boots,
    whereas I don't think I've seen that happen at all under 2.5.1-pre1
    (although I have generally seen hangs about once every three weeks
    since I went to an encrypted root).

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    --- linux-2.5.2-pre11/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Jan 14 05:48:01 2002
    +++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Jan 14 06:13:33 2002
    @@ -488,15 +488,15 @@
    struct bio *rbh)
    {
    unsigned long IV = loop_get_iv(lo, rbh->bi_sector);
    - struct bio_vec *to;
    + struct bio_vec *from;
    char *vto, *vfrom;
    int ret = 0, i;

    - bio_for_each_segment(to, bio, i) {
    - vfrom = page_address(rbh->bi_io_vec[i].bv_page) + rbh->bi_io_vec[i].bv_offset;
    - vto = page_address(to->bv_page) + to->bv_offset;
    + bio_for_each_segment(from, rbh, i) {
    + vfrom = page_address(from->bv_page) + from->bv_offset;
    + vto = page_address(bio->bi_io_vec[i].bv_page) + bio->bi_io_vec[i].bv_offset;
    ret |= lo_do_transfer(lo, bio_data_dir(bio), vto, vfrom,
    - to->bv_len, IV);
    + from->bv_len, IV);
    }

    return ret;
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