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Message-ID: <20080129184442.GK15220@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:44:42 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@...gic.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mike.miller@...com, k-ueda@...jp.nec.com, j-nomura@...jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/block/cciss.c:1260! (with recent  linux-2.6  tree)

On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > > Here the final snippet that was logged:
> > > 
> > > [   12.724997] input: USB HID v1.01 Mouse [HP Virtual Keyboard] on usb-0000:01:04.4-1
> > > [   12.728971] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> > > [   12.732866] drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
> > > [   12.741172] TCP cubic registered
> > > [   12.744506] NET: Registered protocol family 1
> > > [   12.744884] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > > [   12.749217] Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed
> > > [   12.885823] cciss rq: dev cciss/c0d0: type=2, flags=104c8
> > > [   12.888929] 
> > > [   12.888930] sector 6510615555426900570, nr/cnr 0/0
> > > [   12.892895] bio ffff81042f130730, biotail ffff81042f130730, buffer 0000000000000000, data 0000000000000000, len 0
> > > [   12.896895] cdb: 12 00 00 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> > 
> > Ah ok, I see the problem... cciss is overriding the data_len for
> > BLOCK_PC requests, hence it does not complete them properly. Hmm. Does
> > this work?
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > index ef50068..b6fa52e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > @@ -2524,7 +2524,6 @@ after_error_processing:
> >  		resend_cciss_cmd(h, cmd);
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> > -	cmd->rq->data_len = 0;
> >  	cmd->rq->completion_data = cmd;
> >  	blk_complete_request(cmd->rq);
> >  }
> 
> 
> Things look good so far -- with the patch above I can finally boot the
> machine.

Cool, sorry about that. Will get that applied asap. So after this patch
was applied, you didn't see any debug messages from blk_dump_rq_flags()
anymore, right?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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