Recent changes to the kernel pulled in during the merge window have resulted in my system generating an endless loop of the following type of errors:
[ 318.965756] ata14: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 318.968457] ata14.00: configured for UDMA/66 [ 318.970656] ata14: EH complete [ 318.984366] ata14.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 318.986854] ata14.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 [ 318.989138] ata14.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:01/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 22 dma 16640 in Inquiry 12 01 00 00 ff 00res 00/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) [ 318.995986] ata14: hard resetting link I bisected the issue and found the patch responsible for the issue was commit 09e2b0b14690 "scsi: rescan VPD attributes". This commit contained several issues. First, the commit had changed the behavior in terms of what devices we called scsi_attach_vpd() for. As a result we were calling it for devices that didn't support a scsi_level of 6, SCSI 3, so VPD accesses could result in errors. Second, the commit as well as a follow-on patch for it contained a number of RCU errors. Specifically the code was structured such that we had accesses outside of RCU locked regions, and repeated use of the RCU protected pointer without using the proper accessors. As such it was possible to get into a serious corruption situation should a pointer be updated. Ultimately neither of these bugs were my root cause. It turns out the Marvel Console SCSI device in my system needed to have a flag set to disable VPD access in order to keep things from looping through the error repeatedly. In order to resolve it I had to add the kernel parameter "scsi_mod.dev_flags=Marvell:Console:0x4000000". This allowed my system to boot without any errors, however the first two issues described above are still relevent so I thought I would provide the patches since I had already written them up. --- Alexander Duyck (2): scsi: Do not attach VPD to devices that don't support it scsi: Fix RCU handling for VPD pages drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 12 +++++----- drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 14 ++++++----- include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 14 +++++++---- 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html