linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/7] ide: BUG() on unknown requests

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 22:51:46 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] ide: BUG() on unknown requests

Unsupported requests should be never handed down to device drivers
and the best thing we can do upon discovering such request inside
driver's ->do_request method is to just BUG().

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
---
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c     |    8 ++------
 drivers/ide/ide-disk.c   |    9 +--------
 drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c |    6 ++----
 drivers/ide/ide-tape.c   |   10 +---------
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -831,12 +831,8 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_cd_do_request
 		/* right now this can only be a reset... */
 		uptodate = 1;
 		goto out_end;
-	} else {
-		blk_dump_rq_flags(rq, DRV_NAME " bad flags");
-		if (rq->errors == 0)
-			rq->errors = -EIO;
-		goto out_end;
-	}
+	} else
+		BUG();
 
 	/* prepare sense request for this command */
 	ide_prep_sense(drive, rq);
Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
@@ -184,14 +184,7 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_do_rw_disk(id
 	ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
 
 	BUG_ON(drive->dev_flags & IDE_DFLAG_BLOCKED);
-
-	if (!blk_fs_request(rq)) {
-		blk_dump_rq_flags(rq, "ide_do_rw_disk - bad command");
-		if (rq->errors == 0)
-			rq->errors = -EIO;
-		ide_complete_rq(drive, -EIO, ide_rq_bytes(rq));
-		return ide_stopped;
-	}
+	BUG_ON(!blk_fs_request(rq));
 
 	ledtrig_ide_activity();
 
Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
@@ -272,10 +272,8 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_floppy_do_req
 	} else if (blk_pc_request(rq)) {
 		pc = &floppy->queued_pc;
 		idefloppy_blockpc_cmd(floppy, pc, rq);
-	} else {
-		blk_dump_rq_flags(rq, PFX "unsupported command in queue");
-		goto out_end;
-	}
+	} else
+		BUG();
 
 	ide_prep_sense(drive, rq);
 
Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -620,15 +620,7 @@ static ide_startstop_t idetape_do_reques
 	debug_log(DBG_SENSE, "sector: %llu, nr_sectors: %u\n"
 		  (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(rq), blk_rq_sectors(rq));
 
-	if (!(blk_special_request(rq) || blk_sense_request(rq))) {
-		/* We do not support buffer cache originated requests. */
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "ide-tape: %s: Unsupported request in "
-			"request queue (%d)\n", drive->name, rq->cmd_type);
-		if (blk_fs_request(rq) == 0 && rq->errors == 0)
-			rq->errors = -EIO;
-		ide_complete_rq(drive, -EIO, ide_rq_bytes(rq));
-		return ide_stopped;
-	}
+	BUG_ON(!(blk_special_request(rq) || blk_sense_request(rq)));
 
 	/* Retry a failed packet command */
 	if (drive->failed_pc && drive->pc->c[0] == REQUEST_SENSE) {
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