On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:39:33 -0700, Patrick Mansfield <patmans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:01:30PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > I just added some usb-storage devices to my system and got the below.
> > Why do the first four lines repeat for each device? (Not sure if
> > this is a SCSI or USB problem.)
>
> It is in the partition code. I posted twice before about this with no
> response.
It's not an important problem, presumably. I observe dual revalidations
as well, but they are not that bothersome. Add to it that your patch
appears wrong (see below). If you offered an acceptable solution, I would
expect a warmer welcome... But even then getting a reply from linux-scsi
folks is like pulling a tooth (if my own little CD-ROM sizing patch is
any indication). So, steel yourself for challenges of this life, Patrick!
> The changelog said it was a workaround for a borken device, but not what
> device it was or any other details.
Here's what it was in 2.6.9, as documented in drivers/block/ub.c:
+ /*
+ * This is a workaround for a specific problem in our block layer.
+ * In 2.6.9, register_disk duplicates the code from rescan_partitions.
+ * However, if we do add_disk with a device which persistently reports
+ * a changed media, add_disk calls register_disk, which does do_open,
+ * which will call rescan_paritions for changed media. After that,
+ * register_disk attempts to do it all again and causes double kobject
+ * registration and a eventually an oops on module removal.
+ *
+ * The bottom line is, Al Viro says that we should not allow
+ * bdev->bd_invalidated to be set when doing add_disk no matter what.
+ */
+ if (sc->first_open) {
+ if (sc->changed) {
+ sc->first_open = 0;
+ rc = -ENOMEDIUM;
+ goto err_open;
+ }
+ }
Users were hitting it with oopses like these:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.2/0011.html
The ub alone was not suffient to motivate Al for the fix, so I added
this silly "first_open" thingie, which papered over it. It was thought
that sd was miraclously immune.
However, over time users hit it with usb-storage and sd, like this:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/21/19
This prompted Al's action. He simply dropped all the extra code like
this:
--- linux-2.6.9-11.5.EL/fs/partitions/check.c 2004-10-18 14:55:07.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.12/fs/partitions/check.c 2005-06-17 12:48:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -358,24 +357,9 @@ void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
if (!bdev)
return;
+ bdev->bd_invalidated = 1;
if (blkdev_get(bdev, FMODE_READ, 0) < 0)
return;
- state = check_partition(disk, bdev);
- if (state) {
- for (j = 1; j < state->limit; j++) {
- sector_t size = state->parts[j].size;
- sector_t from = state->parts[j].from;
- if (!size)
- continue;
- add_partition(disk, j, from, size);
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
- if (!state->parts[j].flags)
- continue;
- md_autodetect_dev(bdev->bd_dev+j);
-#endif
- }
- kfree(state);
- }
blkdev_put(bdev);
}
I was just about to remove "first_open" from ub, because it's unnecessary
with Al's fix and it was getting on my nerves.
> --- linux-2.6.11-rc1/fs/partitions/check.c Fri Dec 24 13:35:28 2004
> +++ no-double-sd-linux-2.6.11-rc1/fs/partitions/check.c Fri Jan 21 11:19:00 2005
> @@ -375,8 +375,6 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *di
> bdev->bd_invalidated = 0;
> for (p = 1; p < disk->minors; p++)
> delete_partition(disk, p);
> - if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
> - disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
As for your proposed fix, it may be problematic. The ->revalidate
method has to be called at least once for a new device, because
that's when drivers fetch the capacities. But ->open only calls
check_disk_change() for removable devices. Who is going to call
->revalidate inside add_disk() for non-removable devices?
-- Pete
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