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Message-Id: <200711152232.02522.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:32:02 +1100
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Attempt to get eject failures back to ioctl(CDROMEJECT)
On Thursday 15 November 2007 19:47:05 Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > If blk_rq_map_sg returns more than was allocated, it's a bug, and
> > something's already been overwritten. BUG_ON() is probably the right
> > thing here.
>
> It really just means that it mapped more segments than the block layer
> said it would. Usually that wont overwrite memory here since scsi rounds
> up on allocating the sg list, but it indeed can. Similar code has been
> in scsi_lib.c for ages, I'd suggest covering that in the same patch.
Good point. I assume that you've not seen these printks in recent memory?
This covers both cases:
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: BUG_ON() impossible condition.
If blk_rq_map_sg wrote more than was allocated in the scatterlist,
BUG_ON() is probably the right thing to do.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c | 11 +++--------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,6 @@ void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd
*
* Returns: 0 on success
* BLKPREP_DEFER if the failure is retryable
- * BLKPREP_KILL if the failure is fatal
*/
static int scsi_init_io(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
{
@@ -1136,17 +1135,9 @@ static int scsi_init_io(struct scsi_cmnd
* each segment.
*/
count = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, cmd->request_buffer);
- if (likely(count <= cmd->use_sg)) {
- cmd->use_sg = count;
- return BLKPREP_OK;
- }
-
- printk(KERN_ERR "Incorrect number of segments after building list\n");
- printk(KERN_ERR "counted %d, received %d\n", count, cmd->use_sg);
- printk(KERN_ERR "req nr_sec %lu, cur_nr_sec %u\n", req->nr_sectors,
- req->current_nr_sectors);
-
- return BLKPREP_KILL;
+ BUG_ON(count > cmd->use_sg);
+ cmd->use_sg = count;
+ return BLKPREP_OK;
}
static struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_cmd_from_req(struct scsi_device *sdev,
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c
@@ -367,14 +367,9 @@ static int scsi_tgt_init_cmd(struct scsi
dprintk("cmd %p cnt %d %lu\n", cmd, cmd->use_sg, rq_data_dir(rq));
count = blk_rq_map_sg(rq->q, rq, cmd->request_buffer);
- if (likely(count <= cmd->use_sg)) {
- cmd->use_sg = count;
- return 0;
- }
-
- eprintk("cmd %p cnt %d\n", cmd, cmd->use_sg);
- scsi_free_sgtable(cmd);
- return -EINVAL;
+ BUG_ON(count > cmd->use_sg);
+ cmd->use_sg = count;
+ return 0;
}
/* TODO: test this crap and replace bio_map_user with new interface maybe */
-
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