[patch 57/76] SCSI: fix BUG when sum(scatterlist) > bufflen

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From: Chris Wright
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 - 3:43 pm

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>

When sending a SCSI command to a tape drive via the SCSI Generic (sg)
driver, if the command has a data transfer length more than
scatter_elem_sz (32 KB default) and not a multiple of 512, then I either
hit BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(direction)) in dma_unmap_sg() or else
the command never completes (depending on the LLDD).

When constructing scatterlists, the sg driver rounds up the scatterlist
element sizes to be a multiple of 512.  This can result in
sum(scatterlist lengths) > bufflen.  In this case, scsi_req_map_sg()
incorrectly sets bio->bi_size to sum(scatterlist lengths) rather than to
bufflen.  When the command completes, req_bio_endio() detects that
bio->bi_size != 0, and so it doesn't call bio_endio().  This causes the
command to be resubmitted, resulting in BUG_ON or the command never
completing.

This patch makes scsi_req_map_sg() set bio->bi_size to bufflen rather
than to sum(scatterlist lengths), which fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int scsi_req_map_sg(struct reques
 		page = sg_page(sg);
 		off = sg->offset;
 		len = sg->length;
- 		data_len += len;
 
 		while (len > 0 && data_len > 0) {
 			/*

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