From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: linux kernel panic when ejecting ieee1394 ipod Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:37:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20051209133743.GN26185@suse.de> References: <200512072358.15398.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <200512080119.48740.adq@lidskialf.net> <200512080159.10913.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <200512080209.17757.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <43979E1A.30801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20051208173429.GA2666@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:13333 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751320AbVLINg0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:36:26 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051208173429.GA2666@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: Stefan Richter , Andrew de Quincey , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 08 2005, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:44:42AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > What if you replace WRITE by READ in > > drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c::scsi_cmd_ioctl()::case CDROMEJECT ? > > You must mean block/scsi_ioctl.c? i.e.: > > diff -uprN -X /home/patman/dontdiff linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c mod- linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c > --- /home/linux/views/linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-12-03 22:51:54.000000000 -0800 > +++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-12-08 09:31:52.000000000 -0800 > @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct file *file, st > case CDROMCLOSETRAY: > close = 1; > case CDROMEJECT: > - rq = blk_get_request(q, WRITE, __GFP_WAIT); > + rq = blk_get_request(q, READ, __GFP_WAIT); > rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC; > rq->data = NULL; > rq->data_len = 0; This should not make a difference, the direction flag must be ignored for !rq->data_len. Similarly you could translate the request with the change above into DMA_FROM_DEVICE which is clearly false as well. So it must be a bug somewhere that somebody only looks at the direction flag. -- Jens Axboe