Re: Early-boot kernel panics from udev-165/extras/ata_id/ata_id.c

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Can you please test whether the following patch fixes the problem?

Thanks.

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
index 5defc74..9d46731 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -1099,9 +1099,9 @@ static int ata_scsi_dev_config(struct scsi_device *sdev,
 		struct request_queue *q = sdev->request_queue;
 		void *buf;
 
-		/* set the min alignment and padding */
-		blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue,
-					       ATA_DMA_PAD_SZ - 1);
+		sdev->sector_size = ATA_SECT_SIZE;
+
+		/* set DMA padding */
 		blk_queue_update_dma_pad(sdev->request_queue,
 					 ATA_DMA_PAD_SZ - 1);
 
@@ -1115,13 +1115,18 @@ static int ata_scsi_dev_config(struct scsi_device *sdev,
 
 		blk_queue_dma_drain(q, atapi_drain_needed, buf, ATAPI_MAX_DRAIN);
 	} else {
-		/* ATA devices must be sector aligned */
 		sdev->sector_size = ata_id_logical_sector_size(dev->id);
-		blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue,
-					       sdev->sector_size - 1);
 		sdev->manage_start_stop = 1;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * ata_pio_sectors() expect sector alignment on buffers.  ATAPI
+	 * devices also need the alignment as IDENTIFY_PACKET is executed
+	 * as ATA_PROT_PIO.
+	 */
+	blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue,
+				       sdev->sector_size - 1);
+
 	if (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_AN)
 		set_bit(SDEV_EVT_MEDIA_CHANGE, sdev->supported_events);