From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: bio_integrity_verify() bug causing READ verify to be silently skipped
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:09:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1sit4zv23.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387858826.5567.236.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> (Nicholas A. Bellinger's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:20:26 -0800")
>>>>> "nab" == Nicholas A Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> writes:
nab> Given that bio_integrity_verify() is using bio_for_each_segment(),
nab> the loop starts from the updated bio->bi_idx, and not a zero value,
nab> which ends up skipping individual bio segment calls to
nab> bi->verify_fn().
That's botched. Verify is meant to be called with the completed bytes
before the index is tampered with.
nab> The following patch changes bio_integrity_verify() to use
nab> bio_for_each_segment_all() instead of bio_for_each_segment() to
nab> ensure that the segment walk always starts from zero, regardless of
nab> the current bio->bi_idx value after bio_advance().
That breaks partial completion, though. I'll take a look at Kent's
changes...
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-24 4:20 Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-12-24 8:52 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-03 20:09 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2014-01-17 5:20 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-17 21:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-21 23:53 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-22 4:24 ` Jens Axboe
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