Re: kernel BUG at ide-cd.c:1726 in 2.6.24-03863-g0ba6c33 && -g8561b089

[Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:39:27PM -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:

<snip>

> > > end_that_request_last() is not called when __blk_end_reuqest()
> > > returns 1.  Then, the issuer isn't waken up.
> > > So I think the BUG() or error messages should be there.
> > 
> > you mean, end_that_request_last() isn't called when __end_that_request_first()
> > returns an error and this is the case only for fs and pc requests.
> > Otherwise it _is_ called, thus simulating somewhat the previous behavior.
> > However, we never BUG()'ged on residual byte counts before and
> > this driver has been in the kernel tree for ages, so what puzzles
> > me now is how is BUG()'ing here better than before and shouldn't we
> > simply issue a warning instead of killing the interrupt handler...
> 
> The Jens' patch passes the residual byte counts to __blk_end_request(),
> so __end_that_reqeust_first() should never return 1 and we should never
> BUG() on the residual byte counts, unless inconsistency happens such as
> the size of remaining bios is bigger than the residual byte counts.

yep.

> So if __blk_end_request() returns 1 even with the Jens' patch,
> it means that the block layer or the driver really have a bug.
> And then, the request and the bios could leak or the issuer
> would wait forever because end_that_request_last() isn't called.
> 
> The previous behavior might ignore such inconsistency and leak only
> the bios because it was calling end_that_request_last() anyway.
> I would like to BUG() in such cases personally, but I don't object
> strongly if you prefer not to BUG().

BUG() is definitely what we should do here to catch this case of sizeof(bios) >
rq->data_len. Putting a brown paper bag over the issue will never get it fixed
if it really leaks bios. Thanks for clarifying that.

By the way, shouldn't we be doing a little branch prediction here:

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
index 74c6087..bee05a3 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_newpc_intr(ide_drive_t *drive)
         */
        if ((stat & DRQ_STAT) == 0) {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
-               if (__blk_end_request(rq, 0, 0))
+               if (unlikely(__blk_end_request(rq, 0, rq->data_len)))
                        BUG();
                HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);


-- 
Regards/Gruß,
    Boris.