scsi: Generalise last_sector_bug; fixes regression and potential future issues on USB cardreaders

[Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>]

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>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 01cefbb..2415a1b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -406,13 +406,23 @@ static int sd_prep_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Some devices (some sdcards for one) don't like it if the
-	 * last sector gets read in a larger then 1 sector read.
+	 * Some sd cardreaders can't handle multisector accesses which touch
+	 * the last one or two hardware sectors.  There are likely to be even
+	 * buggier devices, so apply a workaround to the last eight sectors.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(sdp->last_sector_bug &&
-	    rq->nr_sectors > sdp->sector_size / 512 &&
-	    block + this_count == get_capacity(disk)))
-		this_count -= sdp->sector_size / 512;
+	if (sdp->last_sector_bug) {
+		unsigned threshold = get_capacity(disk) - 8 * (sdp->sector_size / 512);
+
+		if (block + this_count <= threshold) {
+			;	/* Okay as is */
+		} else if (block < threshold) {
+			/* Access up to the threshold but not beyond */
+			this_count = threshold - block;
+		} else {
+			/* Access only a single hardware sector */
+			this_count = sdp->sector_size / 512;
+		}
+	}
 
 	SCSI_LOG_HLQUEUE(2, scmd_printk(KERN_INFO, SCpnt, "block=%llu\n",
 					(unsigned long long)block));
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index f6a9fe0..0d8d9c1 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ struct scsi_device {
 	unsigned fix_capacity:1;	/* READ_CAPACITY is too high by 1 */
 	unsigned guess_capacity:1;	/* READ_CAPACITY might be too high by 1 */
 	unsigned retry_hwerror:1;	/* Retry HARDWARE_ERROR */
-	unsigned last_sector_bug:1;	/* Always read last sector in a 1 sector read */
+	unsigned last_sector_bug:1;	/* do not use multisector accesses on
+					   the last 8 hardware sectors */
 
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(supported_events, SDEV_EVT_MAXBITS); /* supported events */
 	struct list_head event_list;	/* asserted events */