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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Emoore@lsil.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, fukuchi.masao@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix dma mapping leak in fusion
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:46:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817164614.GA16953@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5704DE66BB@exa-atlanta>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0400, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> Ok - your proposed change will Opps the driver.
> 
> Sequence to oops:
> 1.SCSI midlayer detects command timeout and issue abort 
> message to fusion MPT driver.
> 2.Fusion MPT driver issues abort message to IOC and returns 
> SCSI midlayer with FAILED status.
> 3.SCSI midlayer gives up the operation and call 
> scsi_release_buffers()to free buffers; this 
> routine does "cmd->request_buffer=NULL;"
> 4.Fusion MPT driver initiates IOC reset and calls 
> mptscsih_flush_running_cmds() to cancel SCSI command.
> 5.Oops - occurs when calling pci_unmap_sg when request_buffer=NULL.

Then you have a bug lying even deeper.  You must not fail a device to
the midlayer without also unmapping it and removing it from your
internal lookup tables.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17 16:42 [PATCH] fix dma mapping leak in fusion Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-17 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-17 17:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-17 18:18 ` Luben Tuikov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-31 14:42 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-30 22:29 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-31 12:56 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-08-31 13:14   ` Luben Tuikov
2004-08-23 15:56 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-28 19:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-20 15:01 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-23  1:41 ` Masao Fukuchi
2004-08-19 14:47 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-08-20  3:05 ` Masao Fukuchi
2004-08-17 16:16 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-19  3:01 ` Masao Fukuchi
2004-08-19 10:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-19 13:14     ` Masao Fukuchi

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