[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>

authored by

Alan Jenkins and committed by
James Bottomley
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drivers/scsi/sd.c
··· 375 375 struct gendisk *disk = rq->rq_disk; 376 376 struct scsi_disk *sdkp; 377 377 sector_t block = rq->sector; 378 + sector_t threshold; 378 379 unsigned int this_count = rq->nr_sectors; 379 380 unsigned int timeout = sdp->timeout; 380 381 int ret; ··· 423 422 } 424 423 425 424 /* 426 - * Some devices (some sdcards for one) don't like it if the 427 - * last sector gets read in a larger then 1 sector read. 425 + * Some SD card readers can't handle multi-sector accesses which touch 426 + * the last one or two hardware sectors. Split accesses as needed. 428 427 */ 429 - if (unlikely(sdp->last_sector_bug && 430 - rq->nr_sectors > sdp->sector_size / 512 && 431 - block + this_count == get_capacity(disk))) 432 - this_count -= sdp->sector_size / 512; 428 + threshold = get_capacity(disk) - SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS * 429 + (sdp->sector_size / 512); 430 + 431 + if (unlikely(sdp->last_sector_bug && block + this_count > threshold)) { 432 + if (block < threshold) { 433 + /* Access up to the threshold but not beyond */ 434 + this_count = threshold - block; 435 + } else { 436 + /* Access only a single hardware sector */ 437 + this_count = sdp->sector_size / 512; 438 + } 439 + } 433 440 434 441 SCSI_LOG_HLQUEUE(2, scmd_printk(KERN_INFO, SCpnt, "block=%llu\n", 435 442 (unsigned long long)block));
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drivers/scsi/sd.h
··· 31 31 */ 32 32 #define SD_BUF_SIZE 512 33 33 34 + /* 35 + * Number of sectors at the end of the device to avoid multi-sector 36 + * accesses to in the case of last_sector_bug 37 + */ 38 + #define SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS 8 39 + 34 40 struct scsi_disk { 35 41 struct scsi_driver *driver; /* always &sd_template */ 36 42 struct scsi_device *device;
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include/scsi/scsi_device.h
··· 140 140 unsigned fix_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY is too high by 1 */ 141 141 unsigned guess_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY might be too high by 1 */ 142 142 unsigned retry_hwerror:1; /* Retry HARDWARE_ERROR */ 143 - unsigned last_sector_bug:1; /* Always read last sector in a 1 sector read */ 143 + unsigned last_sector_bug:1; /* do not use multisector accesses on 144 + SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS */ 144 145 145 146 DECLARE_BITMAP(supported_events, SDEV_EVT_MAXBITS); /* supported events */ 146 147 struct list_head event_list; /* asserted events */