On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 23:07 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> CC'ed Jes,
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:15:53 +0300
> Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:24:25PM +0200, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > This is a bit of a rash of bug fixes. The qla1280 is actually a bug fix
> > > (in spite of the title---it's actually correcting an existing problem
> > > with the qla1280 implementation of accessors that broke the current
> > > driver).
> > >
> >
> > Recently I build last Linus's git tree, and got:
> > req_cnt is used uninitialized in this function,
> > and see bellow
> > > The patch is available here:
> > >
> > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git
> > >
> > > The short changelog is:
> > ...
> > > Jes Sorensen (1):
> > > qla1280: convert to use the data buffer accessors
> > >
> > ...
> > > scsi/qla1280.c | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> > ...
> > > /* Calculate number of entries and segments required. */
> > > - req_cnt = 1;
> > >
> >
> > Initilization of req_cnt was removed, but in this function
> > there are places like
> > req_cnt += (seg_cnt - 4) / 7;
> > or
> > req_cnt++;
> > This is should be so?
>
> req_cnt should not be removed. Jes tested the patch but this critical
> bug appears only with BITS_PER_LONG != 64 && CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n case. So
> he didn't see this, I think.
>
> qla1280_32bit_start_scsi also gives the following warning:
>
> drivers/scsi/qla1280.c: In function 'qla1280_32bit_start_scsi':
> drivers/scsi/qla1280.c:3044: warning: unused variable 'dma_handle'
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
> index 146d540..2886407 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
> @@ -3041,7 +3041,6 @@ qla1280_32bit_start_scsi(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, struct srb * sp)
> int cnt;
> int req_cnt;
> int seg_cnt;
> - dma_addr_t dma_handle;
> u8 dir;
>
> ENTER("qla1280_32bit_start_scsi");
> @@ -3050,6 +3049,7 @@ qla1280_32bit_start_scsi(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, struct srb * sp)
> cmd->cmnd[0]);
>
> /* Calculate number of entries and segments required. */
> + req_cnt = 1;
> seg_cnt = scsi_dma_map(cmd);
> if (seg_cnt) {
> /*
I tested this on my qla1280 and confirm all else seems well in 32 bit
mode. I have to say, 32 bit mode was very difficult to enable.
Apparently you not only need a 32 bit non-PAE mode kernel, but also you
need to have HIGHMEM disabled for no readily apparent reason.
James
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