On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:14 +0200 Giuliano Pochini <pochini@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fujitsu magneto-optical drive, Adaptec 29160 and > Linux Jay 2.6.26 #7 SMP Sun Aug 10 18:34:22 CEST 2008 ppc 7455, altivec supported PowerMac3,6 GNU/Linux > > When I insert a disk and I mount it, scsi_test_unit_ready() is called and > the do-while loop gets sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION in the first > cycle and 0 in the second one. So the if below misses the UNIT_ATTENTION > and sdev->changed = 1 is not executed. At this point bad things can > happen... I'm not sure how to fix this. Any clue ? Ok... what about this patch ? The while() condition also checks for NOT_READY. For removable devices sdev->changed is set when not_ready is detected (not only if it occurs in the last cycle). If works fine here, but since I don't know the SCSI subsystem this patch may be wrong. Signed-off-by: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@xxxxxxxx> --- scsi_lib.c__orig 2008-08-18 21:11:45.000000000 +0200 +++ scsi_lib.c 2008-08-18 21:26:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ scsi_test_unit_ready(struct scsi_device TEST_UNIT_READY, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, }; struct scsi_sense_hdr *sshdr; - int result; + int result, not_ready; if (!sshdr_external) sshdr = kzalloc(sizeof(*sshdr), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -1972,23 +1972,19 @@ scsi_test_unit_ready(struct scsi_device do { result = scsi_execute_req(sdev, cmd, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, sshdr, timeout, retries); - } while ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) && - sshdr && sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION && - --retries); + not_ready = (driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) && sshdr && + ((sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION) || + (sshdr->sense_key == NOT_READY)); + if (not_ready && scsi_sense_valid(sshdr) && sdev->removable) + sdev->changed = 1; + } while (not_ready && --retries); if (!sshdr) /* could not allocate sense buffer, so can't process it */ return result; - if ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) && sdev->removable) { - - if ((scsi_sense_valid(sshdr)) && - ((sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION) || - (sshdr->sense_key == NOT_READY))) { - sdev->changed = 1; + if (not_ready && scsi_sense_valid(sshdr) && sdev->removable) result = 0; - } - } if (!sshdr_external) kfree(sshdr); return result; -- Giuliano. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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