Re: 2.6.19-rc3 system freezes when ripping with cdparanoia at ioctl(SG_IO)

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09 2006, Monty Montgomery wrote:
>   
>> On 11/9/06, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> drivers/scsi/sg.c interprets SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV as read while
>>> block/scsi_ioctl.c interprets it as write.  I guess this is historic
>>> thing (scsi/sg.c updated but block/scsi_ioctl.c is forgotten).
>>>       
>> Not historic; Jens accidentally implemented it backwards.  No one
>> noticed for a long time.  I submitted a patch for this a few months
>> ago.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I wonder why that did not go in, I remember the full breadth of
> our discussion and you are fully correct. I'll make sure it gets into
> 2.6.19!
>   

Note sure this patch was supposed to fix our freeze, but I just tried on
top of rc5 and it does not seem to fix it.

Brice

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