Re: 'False' IO error when copying from cdrom drive

[Mathieu Fluhr <mfluhr@nero.com>]

Okay, I understand the point. So this 0x1fffff is somehow a default
value right? (Humm why 0x1fffff by the way?)

But:
- when I open /dev/hdxx with the O_NONBLOCK flag, this is specially to
get a 'raw' access on the device. If I do not pass this flag, the open
syscall will fail if no media is in the device.

- when that mount command is used, the mount will fail if no medium is
inside. So wouldn't it be a good idea to recheck the toc at this time
(something like calling the .revalidate_disk function I mean) 

These are just suggestions... I am just really astonished that a single
user program can disturb the mount command with optical disc devices :D

Regards,
Mathieu

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 23:18 +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:48:25 +0100 Mathieu Fluhr wrote:
> 
> > I explain: First take this really simple program:
> > ----8<------------------------------------------------------------------
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/stat.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> >
> >
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >   if(argc < 2)
> >     return 0;
> >
> >   int iFD = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
> >   if(iFD == -1)
> >     perror("open");
> >
> >   while(1)
> >     sleep(1);
> >
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > ----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
> [..]
> > Ok. Now take a full DVD (I tested DVD+R, +RW and -R), with more than
> > 4 300 000 000 bytes (very important :), and perform the following:
> >
> > 0. Open the tray of your recorder
> > 1. Launch this small program above, passing the recorder device file as
> >    argument and let it run in background.
> 
> At this time the following code in drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:cdrom_read_toc()
> is executed:
> 
> 	/* Try to get the total cdrom capacity and sector size. */
> 	stat = cdrom_read_capacity(drive, &toc->capacity, &sectors_per_frame,
> 				   sense);
> 	if (stat)
> 		toc->capacity = 0x1fffff;
> 
> 	set_capacity(info->disk, toc->capacity * sectors_per_frame);
> 
> Obviously, with the tray open cdrom_read_capacity() won't succeed,
> therefore toc->capacity will be set to 0x1fffff.
> 
> > 2. then put the disc in the device and mount it
> > 3. try to copy to whole content on the hard drive
> >
> > -> You will get an error like the following:
> >   > kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> >   > kernel: hdb: rw=0, want=8388612, limit=8388604
> 
> 0x1fffff * 2048/512 == 8388604
> 
> Your background program is keeping the device open, which prevents
> revalidation of capacity and other media information on subsequent
> device opens.
> 
> When HAL polls CD-ROM devices to detect newly inserted media, it does
> not keep the device open forever - instead, it opens and closes the
> device every time.  Your program should either do the same thing, or
> just depend on HAL events.