linux-kernel - Re: Oops in scsi_send_eh_cmnd 2.6.21-rc5-git6,7,10,13

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Message-Id: <1175873277.3677.11.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:27:57 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Andrew Burgess <aab@...hlid.com>
Cc:	cebbert@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	adam radford <aradford@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Oops in scsi_send_eh_cmnd 2.6.21-rc5-git6,7,10,13

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Yes. The 3w-xxxx.c driver changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 but
> nothing jumps out to my untrained eyes. Here's the diff:
> Also, I should mention that the working kernel is a fedora
> rpm (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) so I don't know what patches are in it.
> The vmlinuz is dated Oct 6 2006.

It's actually a long standing bug in the 3w-xxxx driver.  Apparently it
assumes request sense is always the use_sg == 0 case.  This is what it
does on a request sense:

static int tw_scsiop_request_sense(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, int request_id)
{
        dprintk(KERN_NOTICE "3w-xxxx: tw_scsiop_request_sense()\n");

        /* For now we just zero the request buffer */
        memset(tw_dev->srb[request_id]->request_buffer, 0, tw_dev->srb[request_id]->request_bufflen);
        tw_dev->state[request_id] = TW_S_COMPLETED;
        tw_state_request_finish(tw_dev, request_id);
....

Note that it's clearing the request buffer, which is actually zeroing the scatterlist, hence the problem.

James


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