[PATCH 3/4] BUG_ON on kernel misbehavior on A100U2W driver

Mikulas Patocka
2008-07-15T14:14:17Z

With broken Sparc64 IOMMU accounting, the kernel submits larger requests
then allowed. Better to crash on BUG than corrupt memory. This needs to be
fixed in sparc64 code.

For description of the crashes, see:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.1/1465.html

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
---
drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.26-devel/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-devel.orig/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c 2008-07-14 20:03:43.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-devel/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c 2008-07-15 00:46:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ static void inia100_build_scb(struct orc

count_sg = scsi_dma_map(cmd);
BUG_ON(count_sg < 0);
+ BUG_ON(count_sg > TOTAL_SG_ENTRY);

/* Build the scatter gather lists */
if (count_sg) {