lwn.git/drivers/scsi/st.c, branch v3.0.97

st: fix race in st_scsi_execute_end

2011-11-11T17:37:01+00:00

commit c68bf8eeaa57c852e74adcf597237be149eef830 upstream. The call to complete() in st_scsi_execute_end() wakes up sleeping thread in write_behind_check(), which frees the st_request, thus invalidating the pointer to the associated bio structure, which is then passed to the blk_rq_unmap_user(). Fix by storing pointer to bio structure into temporary local variable. This bug is present since at least linux-2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel Reported-by: Juergen Groß Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[SCSI] st: Increase success probability in driver buffer allocation

2010-12-23T05:26:50+00:00

Modify allocation to try the minimum possible page order allowed by the HBA scatter/gather segment limit in allocation of the driver's internal buffer. This increases the probability of successful allocation. The allocation may still fail if this minimum order is > 0. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara Reported-by: Lukas Kolbe Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] st: Store page order before driver buffer allocation

2010-12-23T05:26:50+00:00

The order of the pages allocated for the driver buffer must be stored before allocation because it is used in freeing already allocated pages if allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara Reported-by: Lukas Kolbe Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6

2010-10-23T00:34:15+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (84 commits) [SCSI] be2iscsi: SGE Len == 64K [SCSI] be2iscsi: Remove premature free of cid [SCSI] be2iscsi: More time for FW [SCSI] libsas: fix bug for vacant phy [SCSI] sd: Fix overflow with big physical blocks [SCSI] st: add MTWEOFI to write filemarks without flushing drive buffer [SCSI] libsas: Don't issue commands to devices that have been hot-removed [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add Online Controller Reset to MegaRAID SAS drive [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: Update lpfc driver version to 8.3.17 [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: Replace function reset methodology [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: SCSI fixes [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: BSG fixes [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: SLI Additions and Fixes [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.17: Code Cleanup and Locking fixes [SCSI] zfcp: Remove scsi_cmnd->serial_number from debug traces [SCSI] ipr: fix array error logging [SCSI] aha152x: enable PCMCIA on 64bit [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Handle all states correctly [SCSI] cxgb4i: connection and ddp setting update [SCSI] cxgb3i: fixed connection over vlan ...

[SCSI] st: add MTWEOFI to write filemarks without flushing drive buffer

2010-10-08T22:16:22+00:00

This patch adds a new MTIOCTOP operation MTWEOFI that writes filemarks with immediate bit set. This means that the drive does not flush its buffer and the next file can be started immediately. This speeds up writing in applications that have to write multiple small files. Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

2010-10-05T13:01:10+00:00

The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers were already using the BKL before. This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes. Still need to check whether this is safe to do. file=$1 name=$2 if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then sed -i '/include.*/d' ${file} else sed -i 's/include.*.*$/include /g' ${file} fi sed -i ${file} \ -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ { 1,/^$static\|int\|long$/ { /^$static\|int\|long$/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex); } }" \ -e "s/$un$*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \ -e '/[ ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d' else sed -i -e '/include.*\/d' ${file} \ -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d' fi Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

st: use noop_llseek() instead of default_llseek()

2010-05-27T16:12:56+00:00

st_open() suggests that llseek() doesn't work: "We really want to do nonseekable_open(inode, filp); here, but some versions of tar incorrectly call lseek on tapes and bail out if that fails. So we disallow pread() and pwrite(), but permit lseeks." Instead of using the fallback default_llseek() the driver should use noop_llseek() which leaves the file->f_pos untouched but succeeds. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Kai Makisara Cc: Willem Riede Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits

2010-02-26T12:58:08+00:00

Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and hardware segment limits. Consolidate the two into a single segment limit. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[SCSI] st: fix mdata->page_order handling

2009-12-10T14:54:13+00:00

dio transfer always resets mdata->page_order to zero. It breaks high-order pages previously allocated for non-dio transfer. This patches adds reserved_page_order to st_buffer structure to save page order for non-dio transfer. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14563 When enlarge_buffer() allocates 524288 from 0, st uses six-order page allocation. So mdata->page_order is 6 and frp_seg is 2. After that, if st uses dio, sgl_map_user_pages() sets mdata->page_order to 0 for st_do_scsi(). After that, when we call normalize_buffer(), it frees only free frp_seg * PAGE_SIZE (2 * 4096) though we should free frp_seg * PAGE_SIZE << 6 (2 * 4096 << 6). So we see buffer_size is set to 516096 (524288 - 8192). Reported-by: Joachim Breuer Tested-by: Joachim Breuer Acked-by: Kai Makisara Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley