Re: SCSI tape crashes (was Re: BUG() in asm/pci.h:142 with 2.4.13)

[Pete Harlan <harlan@artselect.com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:25:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
>    Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:32:48 +0200
> 
>    On Thu, Oct 25 2001, Christian Hammers wrote:
>    > This patch did not prevent the crash. Again immediately after
>    > rewinding the 
>    > tape when it began to write. I'll try now the 2.4.12-ac6... and
>    > it works.
>    
>    Ok, someone else is meddling with the scatterlist then. I'll take a 2nd
>    look.
> 
> Can people try out this patch?  I believe this will fix the bug.

Yessiree, that fixed the scsi tape lockups we had in 2.4.13.

Many thanks,

--Pete harlan@artselect.com


> --- drivers/scsi/st.c.~1~	Sun Oct 21 02:47:53 2001
> +++ drivers/scsi/st.c	Thu Oct 25 17:23:45 2001
> @@ -3233,6 +3233,7 @@
>  				break;
>  			}
>  		}
> +		tb->sg[0].page = NULL;
>  		if (tb->sg[segs].address == NULL) {
>  			kfree(tb);
>  			tb = NULL;
> @@ -3264,6 +3265,7 @@
>  					tb = NULL;
>  					break;
>  				}
> +				tb->sg[segs].page = NULL;
>  				tb->sg[segs].length = b_size;
>  				got += b_size;
>  				segs++;
> @@ -3337,6 +3339,7 @@
>  			normalize_buffer(STbuffer);
>  			return FALSE;
>  		}
> +		STbuffer->sg[segs].page = NULL;
>  		STbuffer->sg[segs].length = b_size;
>  		STbuffer->sg_segs += 1;
>  		got += b_size;