On Thu, Dec 08 2005, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:44:42AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > What if you replace WRITE by READ in > > drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c::scsi_cmd_ioctl()::case CDROMEJECT ? > > You must mean block/scsi_ioctl.c? i.e.: > > diff -uprN -X /home/patman/dontdiff linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c mod- linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c > --- /home/linux/views/linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-12-03 22:51:54.000000000 -0800 > +++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-12-08 09:31:52.000000000 -0800 > @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct file *file, st > case CDROMCLOSETRAY: > close = 1; > case CDROMEJECT: > - rq = blk_get_request(q, WRITE, __GFP_WAIT); > + rq = blk_get_request(q, READ, __GFP_WAIT); > rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC; > rq->data = NULL; > rq->data_len = 0; This should not make a difference, the direction flag must be ignored for !rq->data_len. Similarly you could translate the request with the change above into DMA_FROM_DEVICE which is clearly false as well. So it must be a bug somewhere that somebody only looks at the direction flag. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html