RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDB cmds with sense info

["Yang, Bo" <Bo.Yang@lsi.com>]

Matthew,

Yes, as I mentioned, our applications are built in 32-bit environment
(except for ia64).
We may see a different behavior if we build it in 64-bit for x86-64. 

Regards.

Bo Yang

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Wilcox [mailto:matthew@wil.cx] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Yang, Bo
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com;
akpm@osdl.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Patro, Sumant; Kolli, Neela
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDB
cmds with sense info

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:19:09AM -0700, Yang, Bo wrote:
> Matthew,
> 
> Thanks for your review.
> 
> We have a 32 bit application(s) (megaraid utility) that is used in 
> both
> x86 and x86_64.
> For ia64, the application is built in ia64 environment.

Are you saying the application is built 32-bit for x86-64?
Is it true that, if this application were built 64-bit for x86-64, you
would have the same situation as with ia64?

> The sense_ptr picked up from the ioc->frame.raw is a 32-bit value from

> the application. When we make it "unsigned long*" it picks up a 64-bit

> value & the copy_to_user fails. Without this fix the issue is seen in
> x86_64 kernels. But for ia64 it is an unsigned long * value (8 bytes) 
> and so we need a compile time flag.
>  
> Regards,
> 
> Bo Yang
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Wilcox [mailto:matthew@wil.cx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:42 PM
> To: Yang, Bo
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com; 
> akpm@osdl.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Patro, Sumant; Kolli, 
> Neela
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of 
> DCDB cmds with sense info
> 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:40:56AM +0000, bo yang wrote:
> > Sense buffer ptr data type in the ioctl path is reverted back to u32

> > *
> 
> > for x86 and x86_64 as in previous versions of driver. For IA64 it 
> > will
> 
> > be unsigned long *. Compile time flag added for ia64 for this.
> 
> This changelog tells us what you're doing, but not why you're doing
it.
> Why is it that ia64 is different from x86 and x86_64?  What should 
> other architectures be doing?  This patch really doesn't make any 
> sense to me at all; it should be doing the exact same thing on all 
> three architectures.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <bo.yang@lsi.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas |   15 +++++++++++++++
> > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c      |   14 ++++++++++----
> > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h      |    6 +++---
> >  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff -rupN 
> > linux-2.6.22_orig/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
> linux-2.6.22_new/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
> > --- linux-2.6.22_orig/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
> 2007-11-20 17:50:13.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.22_new/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
> 2007-11-20 21:37:16.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
> > +1 Release Date    : Thur. Nov. 19 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
> > +			(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
> > +			Sumant Patro
> > +			Bo Yang
> > +
> > +2 Current Version : 00.00.03.17-RC1
> > +3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.16
> > +
> > +1. Fix random failure of DCDB cmds with sense info.
> > +
> > +Fix: 	sense buffer ptr data type in the ioctl path is reverted
> back
> > +	to u32 * for x86, x86_64 as in previous versions of driver.
> > +	For IA64 it will be unsigned long *. Compile time flag added
> > +	for ia64 for this.
> > +
> >  1 Release Date    : Thur. Nov. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
> >  			(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
> >  			Sumant Patro
> > diff -rupN linux-2.6.22_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c
> linux-2.6.22_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c
> > --- linux-2.6.22_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c
> 2007-11-20 17:50:13.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.22_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c
> 2007-11-20 17:50:13.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> >   *	   2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> >   *
> >   * FILE		: megaraid_sas.c
> > - * Version	: v00.00.03.16-rc1
> > + * Version	: v00.00.03.17-rc1
> >   *
> >   * Authors:
> >   *	(email-id : megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
> > @@ -3020,10 +3020,16 @@ megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl(struct megasas_ins
> >  		 * sense buffer address
> >  		 */
> >  		sense_buff = (unsigned long *) ((unsigned
> long)ioc->frame.raw +
> > -
> ioc->sense_off);
> > -
> > -		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)(unsigned
> long)(*sense_buff),
> > +					ioc->sense_off);
> > +		sense_ptr = (u32 *) ((unsigned long)ioc->frame.raw +
> > +					ioc->sense_off);
> > +#if defined(__ia64__)
> > +		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)((unsigned
> long)(*sense_buff)),
> > +				sense, ioc->sense_len)) {
> > +#else
> > +		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)((unsigned
> long)(*sense_ptr)),
> >  				sense, ioc->sense_len)) {
> > +#endif
> >  			printk(KERN_ERR "megasas: Failed to copy out to
> user "
> >  					"sense data\n");
> >  			error = -EFAULT;
> > diff -rupN linux-2.6.22_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
> linux-2.6.22_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
> > --- linux-2.6.22_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
> 2007-11-20 17:50:13.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.22_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
> 2007-11-20 17:50:13.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
> >  /*
> >   * MegaRAID SAS Driver meta data
> >   */
> > -#define MEGASAS_VERSION
> "00.00.03.16-rc1"
> > -#define MEGASAS_RELDATE				"Nov. 07, 2007"
> > -#define MEGASAS_EXT_VERSION			"Thu. Nov. 07
10:09:32
> PDT 2007"
> > +#define MEGASAS_VERSION
> "00.00.03.17-rc1"
> > +#define MEGASAS_RELDATE				"Nov. 19, 2007"
> > +#define MEGASAS_EXT_VERSION			"Mon. Nov. 19
10:09:32
> PDT 2007"
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * Device IDs
> > 
> > -
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