On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:15 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I think I found the cause. Special requests submitted using
> scsi_do_req() never initializes ->end_io(). Normally, SCSI midlayer
> terminates special requests inside the SCSI midlayer without passing
> through the blkdev layer. However, if a device is going away or taken
> offline, blkdev layer gets to terminate special requests and, as
> ->end_io() is never set-up, nothing happens and the completion gets
> lost.
The analysis is exactly correct, well done! I think your patch is a bit
overly complex, though. We can achieve the same effect simply by
executing the completion without changing the rq_status like the patch
below.
Jens, To go back to the original problem, except when I hit the usb-
storage error handling oops, I can plug and unplug to my hearts content
and everything works.
James
===== drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c 1.152 vs edited =====
--- 1.152/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c 2005-03-18 05:33:09 -06:00
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c 2005-03-24 22:59:18 -06:00
@@ -252,6 +252,16 @@
complete(req->waiting);
}
+/* This is the end routine we get to if a command was never attached
+ * to the request. Simply complete the request without changing
+ * rq_status; this will cause a DRIVER_ERROR. */
+static void scsi_wait_req_end_io(struct request *req)
+{
+ BUG_ON(!req->waiting);
+
+ complete(req->waiting);
+}
+
void scsi_wait_req(struct scsi_request *sreq, const void *cmnd, void *buffer,
unsigned bufflen, int timeout, int retries)
{
@@ -259,6 +269,7 @@
sreq->sr_request->waiting = &wait;
sreq->sr_request->rq_status = RQ_SCSI_BUSY;
+ sreq->sr_request->end_io = scsi_wait_req_end_io;
scsi_do_req(sreq, cmnd, buffer, bufflen, scsi_wait_done,
timeout, retries);
wait_for_completion(&wait);
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