Re: [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

[Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:10:06AM +0900, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It looks like that if we need to restart the requeue, then
> we use the initial position and not the current index. Does
> this help?
> 
> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> index 1bcd208..81ee063 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ struct ubd {
>  	spinlock_t lock;
>  	struct scatterlist sg[MAX_SG];
>  	struct request *request;
> -	int start_sg, end_sg;
> +	int start_sg, end_sg, rq_off;
>  };
>  
>  #define DEFAULT_COW { \
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct ubd {
>  	.request =		NULL, \
>  	.start_sg =		0, \
>  	.end_sg =		0, \
> +	.rq_off =		0, \
>  }
>  
>  /* Protected by ubd_lock */
> @@ -1241,10 +1242,11 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
>  			dev->request = req;
>  			dev->start_sg = 0;
>  			dev->end_sg = blk_rq_map_sg(q, req, dev->sg);
> +			dev->rq_off = 0;
>  		}
>  
>  		req = dev->request;
> -		sector = blk_rq_pos(req);
> +		sector = blk_rq_pos(req) + dev->rq_off;
>  		while(dev->start_sg < dev->end_sg){
>  			struct scatterlist *sg = &dev->sg[dev->start_sg];
>  
> @@ -1273,6 +1275,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
>  			}
>  
>  			dev->start_sg++;
> +			dev->rq_off += sg->length >> 9;
>  		}
>  		dev->end_sg = 0;
>  		dev->request = NULL;
> 
> -- 

This patch does not fix the corruption issue for me.  I applied the patch
to 2.6.35.5, and reproduced the "deleted inode referenced" errors
in both a gentoo and ubuntu guest OS.  It does take longer to reproduce
though, with this patch.

- Chris