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[SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors

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The last_sector_bug flag was added to work around a bug in certain usb
cardreaders, where they would crash if a multiple sector read included the
last sector. The original implementation avoids this by e.g. splitting an 8
sector read which includes the last sector into a 7 sector read, and a single
sector read for the last sector.  The flag is enabled for all USB devices.

This revealed a second bug in other usb cardreaders, which crash when they
get a multiple sector read which stops 1 sector short of the last sector.
Affected hardware includes the Kingston "MobileLite" external USB cardreader
and the internal USB cardreader on the Asus EeePC.

Extend the last_sector_bug workaround to ensure that any access which touches
the last 8 hardware sectors of the device is a single sector long.  Requests
are shrunk as necessary to meet this constraint.

This gives us a safety margin against potential unknown or future bugs
affecting multi-sector access to the end of the device.  The two known bugs
only affect the last 2 sectors.  However, they suggest that these devices
are prone to fencepost errors and that multi-sector access to the end of the
device is not well tested.  Popular OS's use multi-sector accesses, but they
rarely read the last few sectors.  Linux (with udev & vol_id) automatically
reads sectors from the end of the device on insertion.  It is assumed that
single sector accesses are more thoroughly tested during development.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Alan Jenkins
2008-07-27 09:38:42 +01:00
committed by James Bottomley
parent 4cfc51017d
commit 2b14290078
3 changed files with 23 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ struct scsi_device {
unsigned fix_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY is too high by 1 */
unsigned guess_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY might be too high by 1 */
unsigned retry_hwerror:1; /* Retry HARDWARE_ERROR */
unsigned last_sector_bug:1; /* Always read last sector in a 1 sector read */
unsigned last_sector_bug:1; /* do not use multisector accesses on
SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS */
DECLARE_BITMAP(supported_events, SDEV_EVT_MAXBITS); /* supported events */
struct list_head event_list; /* asserted events */