Re: linux kernel panic when ejecting ieee1394 ipod

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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

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