From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935496AbXGLC2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:28:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932759AbXGLC2L (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:28:11 -0400 Received: from gatekeeper.greshamstorage.com ([216.143.252.225]:27005 "EHLO AUSEXCH1.greshamstorage.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764947AbXGLC2J (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <469590FC.3090703@greshamstorage.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:25:00 -0500 From: Jeremy Linton Organization: Gresham Enterprise Storage User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Christie CC: Jeremy Linton , James Bottomley , Linux Scsi , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: [PATCH][BUG] Incorrect SCSI transfer length computation from odd sized scsi_execute_async() transfers. References: <46957820.9090008@greshamstorage.com> <469581BA.4010009@cs.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <469581BA.4010009@cs.wisc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jul 2007 02:26:29.0323 (UTC) FILETIME=[0DD841B0:01C7C42C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Christie wrote: > I think you needed some other bits in there. See this patch > I tried just setting the bufflen first, and that still had problems. > Could you try the patch here > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117392208211297&w=2 I just read the thread.. I didn't see any strange retries with my test case. I will try duplicating the problem tomorrow. Then I will apply your patch and rerun my test. I'm curious if this has been known since 2.6.19 why the patch hasn't propagated to the main kernel tree?