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Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver

PATCH In review Tony Breeds 3 participants 3 messages Mar 1, 2007

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PATCH 1/1 Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver

From: Tony Breeds <[email protected]>

Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver, caused by eventually calling end_that_request_first() with nr_bytes 0.

The lockup is triggered by hald, interrogating the device.

---
 viocd.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/cdrom/viocd.c +23 -4
Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/cdrom/viocd.c
===================================================================
@@ -376,6 +376,25 @@ static int send_request(struct request *
        return 0;
 }
 
+static void viocd_end_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
+{
+       int nsectors = req->hard_nr_sectors;
+
+       /*
+        * Make sure it's fully ended, and ensure that we process
+        * at least one sector.
+        */
+       if (blk_pc_request(req))
+               nsectors = (req->data_len + 511) >> 9;
+       if (!nsectors)
+               nsectors = 1;
+
+       if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, nsectors))
+               BUG();
+       add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
+       blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
+       end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
+}
 
 static int rwreq;
 
@@ -385,11 +404,11 @@ static void do_viocd_request(request_que
 
        while ((rwreq == 0) && ((req = elv_next_request(q)) != NULL)) {
                if (!blk_fs_request(req))
-                       end_request(req, 0);
+                       viocd_end_request(req, 0);
                else if (send_request(req) < 0) {
                        printk(VIOCD_KERN_WARNING
                                        "unable to send message to OS/400!");
-                       end_request(req, 0);
+                       viocd_end_request(req, 0);
                } else
                        rwreq++;
        }
@@ -601,9 +620,9 @@ return_complete:
                                        "with rc %d:0x%04X: %s\n",
                                        req, event->xRc,
                                        bevent->sub_result, err->msg);
-                       end_request(req, 0);
+                       viocd_end_request(req, 0);
                } else
-                       end_request(req, 1);
+                       viocd_end_request(req, 1);
 
                /* restart handling of incoming requests */
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&viocd_reqlock, flags);

Yours Tony

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Yours Tony

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Quoted 7 lines · On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:56:40 +1100 [email protected] (Tony Breeds) wrote:

From: Tony Breeds <[email protected]>

Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver, caused by eventually calling end_that_request_first() with nr_bytes 0.

The lockup is triggered by hald, interrogating the device.

What causes the lockup, and how does this patch fix it?

drivers/cdrom/viocd.c static int send_request(struct request * · line 381

Quoted 12 lines

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/cdrom/viocd.c
===================================================================

drivers/cdrom/viocd.c +3 -0
@@ -376,6 +376,25 @@ static int send_request(struct request *
        return 0;
 }
 
+static void viocd_end_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
+{
+       int nsectors = req->hard_nr_sectors;

Your email client replaces tabs with spaces. I fixed this patch up.

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Quoted 5 lines · On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:37:48 -0800 Andrew Morton <[email protected]>…
Quoted 2 lines · On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:56:40 +1100 [email protected] (Tony Breeds) wrote:

From: Tony Breeds <[email protected]>

Quoted 7 lines
Quoted 5 lines

Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver, caused by eventually calling end_that_request_first() with nr_bytes 0.

The lockup is triggered by hald, interrogating the device.

What causes the lockup, and how does this patch fix it?

Some versions of hald do an SG_IO ioctl on the viocd device which becomes a request with hard_nr_sectors and hard_cur_sectors set to zero. Passing zero as the number of sectors to end_request() (which calls end_that_request_first()) causes an infinite loop when the bio is being freed. This patch makes sure that the zero is never passed. It only requires some number larger the the request size the terminate the loop.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell [email protected]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/