Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] scsi: BusLogic remove bus_to_virt

Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-23T14:47:59Z

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:56 PM Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org> wrote:
> > while ((comp_code = next_inbox->comp_code) != BLOGIC_INBOX_FREE) {
> > - /*
> > - We are only allowed to do this because we limit our
> > - architectures we run on to machines where bus_to_virt(
> > - actually works. There *needs* to be a dma_addr_to_virt()
> > - in the new PCI DMA mapping interface to replace
> > - bus_to_virt() or else this code is going to become very
> > - innefficient.
> > - */
> > - struct blogic_ccb *ccb =
> > - (struct blogic_ccb *) bus_to_virt(next_inbox->ccb);
> > + struct blogic_ccb *ccb = blogic_inbox_to_ccb(adapter, adapter->next_inbox);
>
> This change looks good enough as workaround to not use bus_to_virt() for
> now. There are two problems I see though. One, I do worry about
> blogic_inbox_to_ccb() returning NULL for ccb which should not happen
> unless the mailbox pointer was corrupted which would indicate a bigger
> problem. Nevertheless a NULL pointer causing kernel panic concerns me.
> How about adding a check before we dereference ccb?

Right, makes sense

> Second, with this patch applied, I am seeing errors from the driver:
>
> =====================
> [ 1623.902685] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> [ 1623.903245] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 1623.911000] scsi2: Illegal CCB #76 status 2 in Incoming Mailbox
> [ 1623.911005] scsi2: Illegal CCB #76 status 2 in Incoming Mailbox
> [ 1623.911070] scsi2: Illegal CCB #79 status 2 in Incoming Mailbox
> [ 1651.458008] scsi2: Warning: Partition Table appears to have Geometry
> 256/63 which is
> [ 1651.458013] scsi2: not compatible with current BusLogic Host Adapter
> Geometry 255/63
> [ 1658.797609] scsi2: Resetting BusLogic BT-958D Failed
> [ 1659.533208] sd 2:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> [ 1659.533331] sd 2:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> [ 1659.533333] sd 2:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> [ 1659.533342] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#101 FAILED Result:
> hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=35s
> [ 1659.533345] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#101 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 28
> 00 00 10 00
> [ 1659.533346] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 40 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700
> phys_seg 1 prio class 0
>
> =================
>
> This is on VirtualBox using emulated BusLogic adapter.
>
> This patch needs more refinement.

Thanks for testing the patch, too bad it didn't work. At least I quickly found
one stupid mistake on my end, hope it's the only one.

Can you test it again with this patch on top?

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
index d057abfcdd5c..9e67f2ee25ee 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
@@ -2554,8 +2554,14 @@ static void blogic_scan_inbox(struct
blogic_adapter *adapter)
enum blogic_cmplt_code comp_code;

while ((comp_code = next_inbox->comp_code) != BLOGIC_INBOX_FREE) {
- struct blogic_ccb *ccb = blogic_inbox_to_ccb(adapter,
adapter->next_inbox);
- if (comp_code != BLOGIC_CMD_NOTFOUND) {
+ struct blogic_ccb *ccb = blogic_inbox_to_ccb(adapter,
next_inbox);
+ if (!ccb) {
+ /*
+ * This should never happen, unless the CCB list is
+ * corrupted in memory.
+ */
+ blogic_warn("Could not find CCB for dma
address 0x%x\n", adapter, next_inbox->ccb);
+ } else if (comp_code != BLOGIC_CMD_NOTFOUND) {
if (ccb->status == BLOGIC_CCB_ACTIVE ||
ccb->status == BLOGIC_CCB_RESET) {