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Alan Jenkins
2b14290078 [SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors
The last_sector_bug flag was added to work around a bug in certain usb
cardreaders, where they would crash if a multiple sector read included the
last sector. The original implementation avoids this by e.g. splitting an 8
sector read which includes the last sector into a 7 sector read, and a single
sector read for the last sector.  The flag is enabled for all USB devices.

This revealed a second bug in other usb cardreaders, which crash when they
get a multiple sector read which stops 1 sector short of the last sector.
Affected hardware includes the Kingston "MobileLite" external USB cardreader
and the internal USB cardreader on the Asus EeePC.

Extend the last_sector_bug workaround to ensure that any access which touches
the last 8 hardware sectors of the device is a single sector long.  Requests
are shrunk as necessary to meet this constraint.

This gives us a safety margin against potential unknown or future bugs
affecting multi-sector access to the end of the device.  The two known bugs
only affect the last 2 sectors.  However, they suggest that these devices
are prone to fencepost errors and that multi-sector access to the end of the
device is not well tested.  Popular OS's use multi-sector accesses, but they
rarely read the last few sectors.  Linux (with udev & vol_id) automatically
reads sectors from the end of the device on insertion.  It is assumed that
single sector accesses are more thoroughly tested during development.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-27 10:16:13 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen
af55ff675a [SCSI] sd: Support for SCSI disk (SBC) Data Integrity Field
Support for controllers and disks that implement DIF protection
information:

 - During command preparation the RDPROTECT/WRPROTECT must be set
   correctly if the target has DIF enabled.

 - READ(6) and WRITE(6) are not supported when DIF is on.

 - The controller must be told how to handle the I/O via the
   protection operation field in scsi_cmnd.

 - Refactor the I/O completion code that extracts failed LBA from the
   returned sense data and handle DIF failures correctly.

 - sd_dif.c implements the functions required to prepare and complete
   requests with protection information attached.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-26 15:14:56 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen
e0597d7001 [SCSI] sd: Identify DIF protection type and application tag ownership
If a disk is formatted with protection information (Inquiry bit
PROTECT=1) it is required to support Read Capacity(16).  Force use of
the 16-bit command in this case and extract the P_TYPE field which
indicates whether the disk is formatted using DIF Type 1, 2 or 3.

The ATO (App Tag Own) bit in the Control Mode Page indicates whether
the storage device or the initiator own the contents of the
DIF application tag.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-26 15:14:55 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen
5b635da11e [SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 08:22:31 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen
aa91696e56 [SCSI] sd: Move sd.h header file
Christoph objected to having sd.h in include/scsi since it is internal
to the sd driver.  Move it to drivers/scsi/sd.h.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 08:22:31 -05:00