Re: one-line-patch against SCSI-Read-Error-BUG()

[Ralf Oehler <R.Oehler@GDAmbH.com>]

On 05-Feb-2002 James Stevenson wrote:
|   > Hi, List
|   >
|   > I think, I found a very simple solution for this annoying BUG().
|   >
|   > Since at least kernel 2.4.16 there is a BUG() in pci.h,
|   > that crashes the kernel on any attempt to read a SCSI-Sector
|   > from an erased MO-Medium and on any attempt to read
|   > a sector from a SCSI-disk, which returns "Read-Error".
|   >
|   > There seems to be a thinko in the corresponding code, which
|   > does not take into account the case where a SCSI-READ
|   > does not return any data because of a "sense code: read error"
|   > or a "sense code: blank sector".
|   >
|    
|    would this also happen with the ide-scsi driver then
|    and would this explain why i see panic's on when reading
|    cd's ?
|    
 I don't know (yet), but it`s well possible.



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