Re: 2.6.1: media change check fails for busy unplugged device

[Mike Anderson]

Andrey Borzenkov [arvidjaar@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> If we unplug busy device (consider mounted USB stick) media change check 
> always returns true (no media change happened). It happens because
> 
> - device state is set to SDEV_DEL and scsi_prep_fn silently kills any request 
> including TEST_UNIT_READY sent by sd_media_changed without propagating any 
> information back to caller
> 

The silently kill would appear to be the issue. The addition of any
number of additional checks prior to calling scsi_ioctl would not ensure
that as soon as the last check is done the device state has not changed.

We need a change in scsi_wait_req to differentiate that we where not woken
up from scsi_wait_done, but from end_that_request_last.

One way would be to check if rq_status == RQ_SCSI_DONE. I did not see
anything on the request to indicate it was BLKPREP_KILL'd.

James has worked more on the scsi_prep_fn so maybe he has another
suggestion.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
andmike@xxxxxxxxxx

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