After the first GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION command, any new media notification is reset by the device. The following is then noticed: 1. insert a CD of a particular size 2. mount it 3. note /sys/block/sr0/size 4. unmount cd 5. replace cd with a size greater than previous one 6. mount it 7. /sys/block/sr0/size isn't updated 8. copy all files from cd to somewhere; IO errors will pop up where the files lie beyond previous CD's geometry The cause is: cdrom_open() open_for_data() cdo->drive_status() = sr_drive_status() cdrom_get_media_event() --> GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION --> med.media_present is true, return CDS_DISK_OK (success) check_disk_change() ... -> 2nd call to GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION at this point the device has already reset the new media event and the call to revalidate_disk() in check_disk_change() is never made. All of this is noticed in a qemu-kvm virtual machine where two CD images are created from two files different in size. CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> CC: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> CC: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Needless to say this is based on my limited research of the flow of data and events. I think sr_ioctl is the best place to handle this revalidation as that's where the information gets lost. If there's a better or a more generic place where this needs to be done, please point me to it. Also, qemu upstream doesn't yet support GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION, I have a scratch implementation that I'm testing against. drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c b/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c index 8be3055..0651448 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c @@ -316,12 +316,19 @@ int sr_drive_status(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi, int slot) return CDS_DRIVE_NOT_READY; if (!cdrom_get_media_event(cdi, &med)) { - if (med.media_present) + if (med.media_present) { + /* + * New media was inserted; ensure disk data is + * revalidated. + */ + if (cdi->disk->fops->revalidate_disk) + cdi->disk->fops->revalidate_disk(cdi->disk); return CDS_DISC_OK; - else if (med.door_open) + } else if (med.door_open) { return CDS_TRAY_OPEN; - else + } else { return CDS_NO_DISC; + } } /* -- 1.7.4 -- 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