Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:46:44 -0600 | From | Mike Christie <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: fix residual byte count handling |
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FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > sum(sg) == rq->data_len is already broken; sg sends such requests > (though it would be nice if it doesn't). >
Actually, I think I was half wrong on that when you asked about scsi_debug. The scatterlist that sg.c uses is never seen by the block layer or scsi layer. It is just used as a container to hold segments. sg.c and st.c use their scatterlist to manage their preallocated pages/segments. When they pass it to scsi_execute_async, that function will create a request struct and add bios for the pages.
In 2.6.24 and below, sg.c will send a scatterlist length that does not match the IO length, and scsi_execute_async will goof up and send a rq->data_len that does not match the sum of the bios. That is what I was trying to fix in 2.6.24, but the patch got messed up. In 2.6.25-rc2 and above that is fixed and scsi_execute_async will catch sg.c doing this and set rq->data_len and the bio lengths correctly.
So hopefully that helps any fixes you might have planned.
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