On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > This patch (as1133) fixes a bug in the interaction between > scsi_end_request() and scsi_io_completion(). The bug was triggered by > recent changes to accomodate USB drives can't access their last few > sectors using multi-sector transfers (the so-called last_sector_bug > flag). > > The bug shows up when a multi-sector I/O request has been broken up > into single-sector commands. If one of those commands gets an error, > the remainder of the request never gets completed. This is because > the "bytes" value passed to scsi_end_request() is completely wrong; it > is the transfer size of the current command, not the total transfer > size of the request. There hasn't been any reply to this patch submission. For reference, the original message is at http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=121986305201166&w=2 Has it been accepted, rejected, or did it fall through the cracks? Alan Stern -- 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
