linux-kernel - [031/140] ide: Fix IDE taskfile with cfq scheduler

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:29:56 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [031/140] ide: Fix IDE taskfile with cfq scheduler

2.6.33-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit 720fc22a7af79d91ec460c80efa92c65c12d105e upstream.

When ide taskfile access is being used (for example with hdparm --security
commands) and cfq scheduler is selected, the scheduler crashes on BUG in
cfq_put_request.

The reason is that the cfq scheduler is tracking counts of read and write
requests separately; the ide-taskfile subsystem allocates a read request and
then flips the flag to make it a write request. The counters in cfq will
mismatch.

This patch changes ide-taskfile to allocate the READ or WRITE request as
required and don't change the flag later.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c
@@ -428,13 +428,11 @@ int ide_raw_taskfile(ide_drive_t *drive,
 {
 	struct request *rq;
 	int error;
+	int rw = !(cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_WRITE) ? READ : WRITE;

-	rq = blk_get_request(drive->queue, READ, __GFP_WAIT);
+	rq = blk_get_request(drive->queue, rw, __GFP_WAIT);
 	rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE;

-	if (cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_WRITE)
-		rq->cmd_flags |= REQ_RW;
-
 	/*
 	 * (ks) We transfer currently only whole sectors.
 	 * This is suffient for now.  But, it would be great,

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