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From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] target: Eliminate usage of struct se_mem
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:16:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E246A75.5000101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310932648.26130.32.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>

On 07/17/2011 12:57 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Although this patch did not directly remove the memsets for newly
> allocated pages used with transport_generic_map_mem_to_cmd(), the issue
> as below of reproducable strangeness with control CDB payloads without
> the explict memset of allocated pages.  As much as I would have liked to
> leave the memset out, I don't think it's safe to do.  Added the
> following:
> 
> commit 7c7649750eb47035ac4fb0123f2e49c1c47c8a15
> Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> Date:   Sun Jul 17 00:20:07 2011 -0700
> 
>     target/iscsi: Make iscsit_alloc_buffs explict memset allocated pages

Hi nab, obviously if it's breaking things the memsets need to go back
for now, but surely it's a sign that somewhere there's a bug. You only
see corruption with control CDBs you say? Any more info on the
strangeness you're seeing?

Regards -- Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-18 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 22:33 [0/20] Patches from June 28 v2 Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 01/20] target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 02/20] target: Pass 2nd param of transport_split_cdb by value Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 03/20] target: Make all control CDBs scatter-gather Andy Grover
2011-07-08 19:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-09  0:02     ` Andy Grover
2011-07-09  0:35     ` Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 04/20] target: Enforce 1 page max for control cdb buffer sizes Andy Grover
2011-07-08 19:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 05/20] target: Remove direct ramdisk code Andy Grover
2011-07-08 19:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 06/20] target: Eliminate usage of struct se_mem Andy Grover
2011-07-08 20:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-09  0:38     ` Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 07/20] target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 08/20] target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err() Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 09/20] target: Remove custom debug macros in non-iscsi fabrics Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 10/20] target/iscsi: Remove iscsi_target_debug.h and usage of TRACE() & printk() Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 11/20] target/iscsi: Remove SE_CMD macro Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 12/20] target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0 Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 13/20] target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 14/20] target: When using kunmap_first_data_page, use goto-style err handling Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 15/20] target: Further simplify transport_free_pages Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 16/20] target: Redo task allocation return value handling Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 17/20] target/core: Remove extra parentheses Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 18/20] target: Extraneous paren removal in tcm_vhost and tcm_qla2xxx Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 19/20] target/iscsi: Remove unneeded parens in conditional statements Andy Grover
2011-07-07 22:33 ` [PATCH 20/20] target/iscsi: Simplify two small bits Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [0/20] target: Patches for June 28 v3 Andy Grover
2011-07-17 19:32   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 01/20] target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 02/20] target: Pass 2nd param of transport_split_cdb by value Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 03/20] target: Make all control CDBs scatter-gather Andy Grover
2011-07-17 19:40   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 04/20] target: Enforce 1 page max for control cdb buffer sizes Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 05/20] target: Remove direct ramdisk code Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 06/20] target: Eliminate usage of struct se_mem Andy Grover
2011-07-17 19:57   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-18 17:16     ` Andy Grover [this message]
2011-07-18 18:44       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-19  4:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-19  5:40       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 07/20] target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 08/20] target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err() Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 09/20] target: Remove custom debug macros in non-iscsi fabrics Andy Grover
2011-07-17 20:02   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 10/20] target/iscsi: Remove iscsi_target_debug.h and usage of TRACE() & printk() Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 11/20] target/iscsi: Remove SE_CMD macro Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 12/20] target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0 Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 13/20] target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 14/20] target: Further simplify transport_free_pages Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 15/20] target: Redo task allocation return value handling Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 16/20] target/core: Remove extra parentheses Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 17/20] target: Extraneous paren removal in tcm_vhost and tcm_qla2xxx Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 18/20] target/iscsi: Remove unneeded parens in conditional statements Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 19/20] target/iscsi: Simplify two small bits Andy Grover
2011-07-09  1:18 ` [PATCH 20/20] target: change alloc_task call to take *cdb, not *cmd Andy Grover
2011-07-09 10:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-10 22:41     ` Andy Grover
2011-07-11 15:28       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-17 20:04   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger

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