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authorAlan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>2008-07-27 12:38:42 +0400
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2008-07-27 18:16:13 +0400
commit2b142900784c6e38c8d39fa57d5f95ef08e735d8 (patch)
treee7d51b58df76e864c91ff7ffca0229027328c588 /drivers/scsi/sd.h
parent4cfc51017db3e3f4eaaa2cb436a905097a4f08e2 (diff)
downloadlinux-2b142900784c6e38c8d39fa57d5f95ef08e735d8.tar.xz
[SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors
The last_sector_bug flag was added to work around a bug in certain usb cardreaders, where they would crash if a multiple sector read included the last sector. The original implementation avoids this by e.g. splitting an 8 sector read which includes the last sector into a 7 sector read, and a single sector read for the last sector. The flag is enabled for all USB devices. This revealed a second bug in other usb cardreaders, which crash when they get a multiple sector read which stops 1 sector short of the last sector. Affected hardware includes the Kingston "MobileLite" external USB cardreader and the internal USB cardreader on the Asus EeePC. Extend the last_sector_bug workaround to ensure that any access which touches the last 8 hardware sectors of the device is a single sector long. Requests are shrunk as necessary to meet this constraint. This gives us a safety margin against potential unknown or future bugs affecting multi-sector access to the end of the device. The two known bugs only affect the last 2 sectors. However, they suggest that these devices are prone to fencepost errors and that multi-sector access to the end of the device is not well tested. Popular OS's use multi-sector accesses, but they rarely read the last few sectors. Linux (with udev & vol_id) automatically reads sectors from the end of the device on insertion. It is assumed that single sector accesses are more thoroughly tested during development. Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.h b/drivers/scsi/sd.h
index 550b2f70a1f8..95b9f06534d5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.h
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
*/
#define SD_BUF_SIZE 512
+/*
+ * Number of sectors at the end of the device to avoid multi-sector
+ * accesses to in the case of last_sector_bug
+ */
+#define SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS 8
+
struct scsi_disk {
struct scsi_driver *driver; /* always &sd_template */
struct scsi_device *device;