On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:47:46PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > If we attempt a direct issue to a SCSI device, and it returns BUSY, then > we queue the request up normally. However, the SCSI layer may have > already setup SG tables etc for this particular command. If we later > merge with this request, then the old tables are no longer valid. Once > we issue the IO, we only read/write the original part of the request, > not the new state of it. > > This causes data corruption, and is most often noticed with the file > system complaining about the just read data being invalid: Looks good as the first quick fix: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> But as we discussed I think we need to be even more careful. including the only read and write check below in the thread or some higher level approach.
