On 01/23/2017 07:05 AM, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Guilherme G. Piccoli
> <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The firmware or device, possibly under a heavy I/O load, can return
>> on a partial unaligned boundary. Scsi-ml expects these requests to be
>> completed on an alignment boundary. Scsi-ml blindly requeues the I/O
>> without checking the alignment boundary of the I/O request for the
>> remaining bytes. This leads to errors, since devices cannot perform
>> non-aligned read/write operations.
>>
>> This patch fixes the issue in the driver. It aligns unaligned
>> completions of FS requests, by truncating them to the nearest
>> alignment boundary.
>>
>> Reported-by: Mauricio Faria De Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
>> index b5c966e..55332a3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
>> @@ -4644,6 +4644,8 @@ _scsih_io_done(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 smid, u8 msix_index, u32 reply)
>> struct MPT3SAS_DEVICE *sas_device_priv_data;
>> u32 response_code = 0;
>> unsigned long flags;
>> + unsigned int sector_sz;
>> + struct request *req;
>>
>> mpi_reply = mpt3sas_base_get_reply_virt_addr(ioc, reply);
>> scmd = _scsih_scsi_lookup_get_clear(ioc, smid);
>> @@ -4703,6 +4705,20 @@ _scsih_io_done(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 smid, u8 msix_index, u32 reply)
>> }
>>
>> xfer_cnt = le32_to_cpu(mpi_reply->TransferCount);
>> +
>> + /* In case of bogus fw or device, we could end up having
>> + * unaligned partial completion. We can force alignment here,
>> + * then scsi-ml does not need to handle this misbehavior.
>> + */
>> + sector_sz = scmd->device->sector_size;
>> + req = scmd->request;
>> + if (unlikely(sector_sz && req && (req->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_FS) &&
>> + (xfer_cnt % sector_sz))) {
>> + sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, scmd->device,
>> + "unaligned partial completion avoided\n");
>
> [Sreekanth] Patch looks good. But can we print xfer_cnt & sector_sz
> values along with above print.
>
> Also if it is generic drive issue, then can we move this work around
> to SCSI Mid Layer?
>
Thank you! I'll send a v2 including your suggestion.
Regarding a fix in scsi-ml, we tried already:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/19/591
Reception wasn't in favor of the patch; they suggested we patch the
driver instead, then we sent the current change only for mpt3sas.
Thanks,
Guilherme
>> + xfer_cnt = (xfer_cnt / sector_sz) * sector_sz;
>> + }
>> +
>> scsi_set_resid(scmd, scsi_bufflen(scmd) - xfer_cnt);
>> if (ioc_status & MPI2_IOCSTATUS_FLAG_LOG_INFO_AVAILABLE)
>> log_info = le32_to_cpu(mpi_reply->IOCLogInfo);
>> --
>> 2.1.0
>>
>
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