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From: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com
Subject: sg: Free data buffers after calling blk_rq_unmap_user
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:53:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915165356.GA2356@schmichrtp> (raw)

This patch fixes a problem with the sg driver that is only visible
with the CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC kernel config option. The patch works
for me, but i would appreciate the review of somebody with more
knowledge about the interactions between the sg driver and the block
layer.

Christof
---
sg: Free data buffers after calling blk_rq_unmap_user

From: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>

Running sg_luns on s390x with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled fails
with EFAULT from the SG_IO ioctl. The EFAULT is the result from
copy_to_user failing in this call chain:

sg_ioctl
sg_new_read
sg_finish_rem_req
blk_rq_unmap_user
__blk_rq_unmap_user
bio_uncopy_user
__bio_copy_iov
copy_to_user

The sg driver calls sg_remove_scat to free the memory pages before
calling blk_rq_unmap_user that tries to copy the data back to
userspace. Change the order to first call blk_rq_unmap_user before
freeing the pages in sg_remove_scat.

Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/sg.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c	2009-09-15 18:18:11.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c	2009-09-15 18:18:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1708,11 +1708,6 @@ static int sg_finish_rem_req(Sg_request 
 	Sg_scatter_hold *req_schp = &srp->data;
 
 	SCSI_LOG_TIMEOUT(4, printk("sg_finish_rem_req: res_used=%d\n", (int) srp->res_used));
-	if (srp->res_used)
-		sg_unlink_reserve(sfp, srp);
-	else
-		sg_remove_scat(req_schp);
-
 	if (srp->rq) {
 		if (srp->bio)
 			ret = blk_rq_unmap_user(srp->bio);
@@ -1720,6 +1715,11 @@ static int sg_finish_rem_req(Sg_request 
 		blk_put_request(srp->rq);
 	}
 
+	if (srp->res_used)
+		sg_unlink_reserve(sfp, srp);
+	else
+		sg_remove_scat(req_schp);
+
 	sg_remove_request(sfp, srp);
 
 	return ret;

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 16:53 Christof Schmitt [this message]
2009-09-17  6:00 ` sg: Free data buffers after calling blk_rq_unmap_user FUJITA Tomonori
2009-09-17  6:53   ` Christof Schmitt

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