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Message-Id: <1207231045.9155.6.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:57:25 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, k-ueda@...jp.nec.com,
	j-nomura@...jp.nec.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, zaitcev@...hat.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/block/ub.c:820!

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:32 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > With git bisect I could came up with:
> > 610d8b0c972e3b75493efef8e96175518fd736d3 good
> > 3bcddeac1c4c7e6fb90531b80f236b1a05dfe514 compile error
> > 5450d3e1d68f10be087f0855d8bad5458b50ecbe compile error
> > b8286239ddaf2632cec65c01e68a403ac4c3d079 compile error
> > 7d699bafe258ebd8f9b4ec182c554200b369a504 bad
> > 
> > If I replace the BUG() with a printk my kernel survives the usb plug but
> > udev doesn't find the stick.
> > 
> 
> It is not the right fix but what happens if you change above code to this:
> 
> static void ub_end_rq(struct request *rq, unsigned int scsi_status)
> {
>         int error;
> 
>         if (scsi_status == 0) {
>                 error = 0;
>         } else {
>                 error = -EIO;
>                 rq->errors = scsi_status;
>         }
>         if (__blk_end_request(rq, error, blk_rq_bytes(rq)))
>                 __blk_end_request(rq, error, ~0);  /* <-- added line BUG removed. */
>         }
> }

I've tried this patch:

--- snip
diff --git a/drivers/block/ub.c b/drivers/block/ub.c
index c452e2d..0031e72 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ub.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ub.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static void ub_rw_cmd_done(struct ub_dev *sc, struct ub_scsi_cmd *cmd)
 
 static void ub_end_rq(struct request *rq, unsigned int scsi_status)
 {
-	int error;
+	int error, size;
 
 	if (scsi_status == 0) {
 		error = 0;
@@ -816,8 +816,12 @@ static void ub_end_rq(struct request *rq, unsigned int scsi_status)
 		error = -EIO;
 		rq->errors = scsi_status;
 	}
-	if (__blk_end_request(rq, error, blk_rq_bytes(rq)))
-		BUG();
+	size = blk_rq_bytes(rq);
+	if (__blk_end_request(rq, error, size)) {
+		  printk(KERN_WARNING "ub_end_rq: __blk_end_request failed "
+			 "with size %i\n", size);
+		__blk_end_request(rq, error, ~0);
+	}
 }
 
 static int ub_rw_cmd_retry(struct ub_dev *sc, struct ub_lun *lun,

--- snip

The output on the console:

# usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
# usb 5-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
#  uba: uba1
# usbcore: registered new interface driver ub
# Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
# usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
# USB Mass Storage support registered.
# ub_end_rq: __blk_end_request failed with size 218
# ub_end_rq: __blk_end_request failed with size 218
# ub_end_rq: __blk_end_request failed with size 218
# ub_end_rq: __blk_end_request failed with size 218

I can mount the stick and read files from it without any additional
warnings. Just the initial detection seems to create the odd sized
requests.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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