Message-ID: <20080305124857.GJ6704@kernel.dk>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:48:57 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, tomof@....org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, bzolnier@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blk: missing add of padded bytes to io completion byte  count

On Wed, Mar 05 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05 2008 at 14:33 +0200, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 05 2008 at 2:26 +0200, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:33:05 +0900
> >>> Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> >>>>> Hmm, does SCSI mid-layer need to care about how many bytes the block
> >>>>> layer allocates? I don't think that extra_len is NOT good_bytes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think that the block layer had better take care about it (fix
> >>>>> __end_that_request_first?).
> >>>> Yeah, probably calling completion functions w/o bytes count is the right
> >>>> thing to do but what I was talking about was what could break when the
> >>>> semantics of rq->data_len changed.  If we keep rq->data_len() ==
> >>>> sum(sg), we keep it business as usual for all the rest except for the
> >>>> device application layer if we don't we do the reverse and SCSI midlayer
> >>>> completion was a good example, I think.
> >>> sglist is a low-level I/O representation for device drivers. SCSI
> >>> midlayer should not care about sglist. We should not fix SCSI midlayer
> >>> for rq->data_len != sum(sg) change (so I can't agree with your
> >>> diagrams in another mail).
> >>>
> >>> When if we change a rule, we need to fix something.
> >>>
> >>> If we keep rq->data_len == sum(sg), we need to fix the device
> >>> application layer. If we keep rq->data_len == the true data length, we
> >>> need to fix the low-level drivers.
> >>>
> >>> Now I'm fine with the commit e97a294ef6938512b655b1abf17656cf2b26f709
> >>> since we are in -rc stages. But I plan to send a patch to revert it
> >>> and fix this issue in the block layer. I'd like to test it in -mm for
> >>> a while.
> >> No this commit is a serious bug, and the only fix is like you suggested
> >> in __end_that_request_first. This is because it breaks that scsi-ml loop
> >> where scsi_bufflen() can be less then blk_rq_bytes(). In that case this 
> >> commit is a data corruption.
> >>
> >>> Only sglist stuff in SCSI midlayer is scsi_req_map_sg now. As you
> >>> know, we really want to remove it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Things going the other way is fine with me but I at least want to hear a
> >>>> valid rationale.  Till now all I got is "because that's the true size"
> >>>> which doesn't really make much sense to me.
> >>> Most of users of request structure care about only the real data
> >>> length, don't care about padding and drain length. Why do they bother
> >>> to use a helper function to get the real data length?
> >>> --
> >> Submitted is the right fix to this problem, as pointed out by TOMO.
> >> Please test it solves the CD burning problem.
> >> (The patch includes the revert of commit e97a294e)
> >> ---
> >> From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:07:12 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH] blk: missing add of padded bytes to io completion byte count
> >>
> >> the commit e97a294ef6938512b655b1abf17656cf2b26f709 was very wrong. This is
> >> because scsi-ml supports the ability to split a request into smaller chunks,
> >> in which case scsi_bufflen() is smaller then request length. Then at completion
> >> time the remainder can be issued as a new scsi command. In that case the above
> >> commit is a data corruption.
> > 
> > We needed something for -rc4, so it had to be rushed a bit...
> > 
> >> Also in this fix all users of block layer are taken care of, and not only
> >> scsi devices.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
> >> ---
> >>  block/blk-core.c    |    4 ++++
> >>  drivers/scsi/scsi.c |    2 +-
> >>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> >> index 2a438a9..37fcccc 100644
> >> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> >> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> >> @@ -1549,6 +1549,9 @@ static int __end_that_request_first(struct request *req, int error,
> >>  			     nr_bytes >> 9, req->sector);
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >> +	if (nr_bytes >= blk_rq_bytes(req))
> >> +		nr_bytes += req->extra_len;
> >> +
> >>  	total_bytes = bio_nbytes = 0;
> >>  	while ((bio = req->bio) != NULL) {
> >>  		int nbytes;
> >> @@ -1616,6 +1619,7 @@ static int __end_that_request_first(struct request *req, int error,
> >>  	if (!req->bio)
> >>  		return 0;
> >>  
> >> +	BUG_ON(total_bytes >= blk_rq_bytes(req));
> > 
> > Make that a WARN_ON() first please. It's indeed a bug, but it wont be
> > critical and it's not fair killing everything since this padding stuff
> > is so fresh and may still need a tweak or two.
> > 
> > I'd be fine with making it a BUG_ON() post 2.6.25.
> > 
> Updated, you are absolutely right, thanks.
> 
> Will you commit below patch for 2.6.25? I know that, at the time, I have 
> seen this scsi-ml-loop in action on a sata drive here in the lab, on an 
> x86_64 machine. The current solution will silently corrupt data, which 
> is very hard to find.

Yes, was just hoping you'd resend with the above corrected, so thanks!
I'll add it to the pending queue for 2.6.25.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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