On 31/07/2015 18:05, Alan Stern wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Giulio Bernardi wrote:
You should check that scsi_report_lun_scan() really does return 1. If
it returns 0 instead (because BLIST_NOLUN is set in bflags or for any
other reason), that would cause the behavior you see.
I found the reason of this behavior: there is BLIST_NOLUN in bflags indeed.
It is a bug in scsi_get_device_flags_keyed():
In fact, my device reports these strings for model and vendor:
vendor = "Inateck 0101"
model = " 0101"
That's not quite right. The vendor string is always exactly 8 bytes,
the model string is always exactly 16 bytes, and the revision string is
always exactly 4 bytes. Therefore your device actually reports vendor
= "Inateck ", model = " ", and revision = "0101".
and this matches with this entry in the global scsi device list:
{"", "Scanner", "1.80", BLIST_NOLUN}
In fact: the check on vendor passes because strlen(devinfo->vendor) == 0 so
memcmp always passes, and the check on model passes because the code assumes
that max length of model is 16: when trimming the string (which is exactly 16
spaces followed by 0101) it ends up with an empty string, which then matches
whatever string for the same reason of the previous check.
Yes, both of those checks are buggy. I'm surprised they weren't fixed
long ago.
I am recompiling the kernel now, with max = 20 instead of max = 16 to see if it
works, but I don't know if other devices do exist with a longer model string.
Maybe those limits (8 for vendor, 16 for model) were true for real scsi and not
for USB devices?
Those limits always hold for all SCSI devices, including USB. They are
part of the SCSI specification. The right way to fix this is to change
the tests, not to increase the max string length. Does the patch below
fix the problem for you?
I tried the patch but it doesn't work. I applied it without looking at it
before, but the problem is that actually "vendor" variable is really "Inateck
0101" (28 chars) and "model" is really " 0101" (20
chars): at least, that's the data that is passed to scsi_get_device_flags_keyed().
So your code is never executed
+ while (max > 0 && model[max - 1] == ' ')
+ --max;
+ if (memcmp(devinfo->model, model, max) ||
+ devinfo->model[max])
because max is already 0 from the previous loop.
Maybe I should see where vendor and model come from? Maybe they are concatenated
from the original vendor and model values reported from the device, so that
might be why those strings are so long.
Giulio
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