On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Yes. The 3w-xxxx.c driver changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 but
> nothing jumps out to my untrained eyes. Here's the diff:
> Also, I should mention that the working kernel is a fedora
> rpm (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) so I don't know what patches are in it.
> The vmlinuz is dated Oct 6 2006.
It's actually a long standing bug in the 3w-xxxx driver. Apparently it
assumes request sense is always the use_sg == 0 case. This is what it
does on a request sense:
static int tw_scsiop_request_sense(TW_Device_Extension *tw_dev, int request_id)
{
dprintk(KERN_NOTICE "3w-xxxx: tw_scsiop_request_sense()\n");
/* For now we just zero the request buffer */
memset(tw_dev->srb[request_id]->request_buffer, 0, tw_dev->srb[request_id]->request_bufflen);
tw_dev->state[request_id] = TW_S_COMPLETED;
tw_state_request_finish(tw_dev, request_id);
....
Note that it's clearing the request buffer, which is actually zeroing the scatterlist, hence the problem.
James
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