Re: [PATCH 4/5] block: move queue enter logic into blk_mq_submit_bio()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Nov 12 2021 - 02:39:03 EST


Hi Michael,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:35 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> how easy is that to reproduce?

Fairly easy: it happens either on mounting, or after a few seconds booting
into my old Debian userspace.

> sd_setup_read_write_cmnd() does not validate the request's FUA flag
> against sdkp->DPOFUA (not suggesting that it should ...). I'd like to
> try and trace when such a mismatch happens.

Thanks!

> On 12/11/21 03:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:19 PM Martin K. Petersen
> > <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
> >>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> >>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add. Sense: Invalid field in cdb
> >>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: Write(10) 2a 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 08 00
> >>> critical target error, dev sda, sector 1 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x20800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
> >>> Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 0, lost sync page write
> >>
> >> Peculiar. That write command looks OK to me. I wonder if it's the FUA
> >> bit that trips it?
> >>
> >> What does:
> >>
> >> # dmesg | grep FUA
> >>
> >> say?
> >
> > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> > support DPO or FUA

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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