Re: [PATCH] block: fix residual byte count handling

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 01:42 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> >>>> Aiee... device going down after timing out on READ_DISC_INFO.  That's
> >>>> gruesome.  Can you please try the other patches?
> >>> Tejun, I thought that libata needs a fix for sum(sg) != rq->data_len. No?
> >> The extra_len you added to qc->nbytes should be it.  The only other
> >> place to pay attention is the ATAPI transfer chunk size and your patch
> >> seems to get it right.
> >>
> >>> Now Jens' git tree should work with all the non libata stuff, ide,
> >>> firewire, bsg, etc. But I'm not sure about libata.
> >> With the second patch, all others should be fine no matter what.  I'll
> >> go check libata part again.
> > 
> > I can reproduce the problem here and it's very weird.  I'll report back
> > when I know more.
> 
> Okay, I got it.  Heh, it turns out SCSI and/or block layer is not
> ready for rq->data_len != sum(sg).  When adjusted command completes,
> SCSI midlayer completes the command with rq->data_len for PC commands
> which eventually ends up in __end_that_request_first().  As there are
> extra sg area left after completing rq->data_len, blk layer says so to
> SCSI layer and SCSI layer retries the command only with the appended
> area.
> 
> The following patch gets the writing going.  I really think it's a
> serious mistake to break rq->data_len == sum(sg).  If we break
> rq->data_len == requested size, the worst bugs are giving wrong size
> when issuing commands to application layer of devices which is
> relatively easy to spot and not all that command anyway.  Breaking
> rq->data_len == sum(sg), bugs will be in internal mechanics, DMA
> engine programming and transport layer.  Oh well...
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> index fecba05..32439ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ void scsi_finish_command(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
>  				"Notifying upper driver of completion "
>  				"(result %x)\n", cmd->result));
>  
> -	good_bytes = scsi_bufflen(cmd);
> +	good_bytes = scsi_bufflen(cmd) + cmd->request->data_len;

This doesn't look right.  scsi_bufflen(cmd) is req->data_len for PC
commands ... did you mean to add extra_len here?

James