linux-kernel - Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

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Message-Id: <20071018080048O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:00:48 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	jens.axboe@...cle.com, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, tomof@....org
Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:11:34 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > That would hurt... Care to commit your for_each_sg() uglification fixup
> > for now then? Or disable the allocation debug config entry, so that the
> > sg+1 deref wont crash?
> 
> Well, in practice, it will only crash with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, so few enough 
> are going to be hit by it. In that sense I don't think we're in any deep 
> trouble yet.
> 
> That said, maybe this is an acceptable, if hacky, replacement for the 
> current "for_each_sg()" loop.
> 
> It does:
>  - starts at one *before* the sglist
>  - does the sg_next() at the *top* of the loop rather than the bottom of it
>  - has a "--count" before that sg_next, so that we don't do it for the 
>    case when we break out and have used up all segments.
> 
> Totally untested, but it *may* work, and it doesn't look horribly ugly.
> 
> Ingo, does this actually make any difference?
> 
> 		Linus
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/scatterlist.h |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> index 2dc7464..f5c8e11 100644
> --- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> +++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> @@ -51,11 +51,18 @@ static inline struct scatterlist *sg_next(struct scatterlist *sg)
>  	return sg;
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct scatterlist *sg_safe_next(struct scatterlist *sg, int left)
> +{
> +	if (left < 0)
> +		return NULL;
> +	return sg_next(sg);
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Loop over each sg element, following the pointer to a new list if necessary
>   */
>  #define for_each_sg(sglist, sg, nr, __i)	\
> -	for (__i = 0, sg = (sglist); __i < (nr); __i++, sg = sg_next(sg))
> +	for (__i = (nr), sg = (sglist)-1; (sg = sg_safe_next(sg, --__i)) != NULL ; )

Looks that (sglist) - 1 isn't initialized and we use sg_next for it?
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