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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI tape crashes (was Re: BUG() in asm/pci.h:142 with 2.4.13)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:33:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031093353.F631@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.cdhetrv.1828dgd@ifi.uio.no> <fa.j17q3gv.m6e1ju@ifi.uio.no> <022401c16164$21a945d0$1a01a8c0@allyourbase>
In-Reply-To: <022401c16164$21a945d0$1a01a8c0@allyourbase>

On Tue, Oct 30 2001, Dan Maas wrote:
> > Can people try out this patch?  I believe this will fix the bug.
> > + tb->sg[0].page = NULL;
> >   if (tb->sg[segs].address == NULL) {
> 
> For the sake of making this clear to other kernel hackers (I got bitten by
> it too) - starting with 2.4.13 you must zero out the fields of struct
> scatterlist that you are not using. i.e. it is no longer sufficient to
> simply set sg.address and sg.length, because junk might still be present in
> the new sg.page field, and pci_map_*() will BUG() if both sg.address and
> sg.page are non-zero.

True, perhaps we should add a init_sg or something like that.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.cdhetrv.1828dgd@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.j17q3gv.m6e1ju@ifi.uio.no>
2001-10-30 16:58   ` SCSI tape crashes (was Re: BUG() in asm/pci.h:142 with 2.4.13) Dan Maas
2001-10-31  8:33     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20011031.004311.85410732.davem@redhat.com>
     [not found]         ` <20011031094650.H631@suse.de>
2001-10-31  8:49           ` SCSI tape crashes David S. Miller
2001-10-31  8:53             ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-25 11:11 BUG() in asm/pci.h:142 with 2.4.13 Jens Axboe
2001-10-25 17:23 ` Christian Hammers
2001-10-25 17:32   ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-26  0:25     ` SCSI tape crashes (was Re: BUG() in asm/pci.h:142 with 2.4.13) David S. Miller
2001-10-26  2:26       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-10-26  1:33         ` Christian Hammers
2001-10-28  1:34       ` Pete Harlan

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