from being run in the background of most shells without redirecting stdin
from /dev/null. (AFAICT, the termios stuff is useless and does not
interfere with SIGINFO handling.)
use PIO (or equivalent) code to do asynchronous transfers: In
ncr5380_scsi_cmd(), test to see if the request has been completed after
the call to ncr5380_sched(), and return COMPLETE if so. This avoids
going into an infinite loop in scsipi_execute_xs() while waiting for an
interrupt to trigger completion of the transfer... which, of course,
never happens, since it's already done.
scsipi_xfer structures.
When scsipi_execute_xs() calls the driver's scsi_cmd function, it assumes
that it can still dereference a pointer to the scsipi_xfer struct. Since
scsipi_done() has already been called, which in turn has called
scsipi_free_xs(), the struct has already been returned the structure to
the pool! In other words, xs->flags has been compromised, but we are still
testing it.
These changes resolve the problem by doing the following:
- In scsipi_execute_xs(), if the hardware driver's scsi_cmd function
returns SUCCESSFULLY_QUEUED, set a new flag (SCSI_ASYNCREQ) in xs->flags.
Since the request will be handled asynchronously, we will need the
scsipi_xfer struct to be freed in scsipi_done().
If the hardware driver's scsi_cmd function returns COMPLETE, we now
simply return any actual errors, or 0 if none occurred. (Previously,
we may have returned EJUSTRETURN, of which the sole effect was to
avoid freeing the scsipi_xfer struct in our caller.)
- In scsipi_done(), only free the scsipi_xfer struct for async requests.
The contents of the struct will otherwise remain valid until the
function that initiated the transfer frees it.
With this change, responsibility for freeing the struct now lies in two
places, depending on the type of the request:
- For synchronous requests, the routine calling scsipi_execute_xs()
must clean up.
- For asynchronous requests, scsipi_done() cleans up (as it always has).
[Note: this change also corrects a problem with sddump(): scsipi_done()
was attempting to return a static scsipi_xfer struct to the pool! Since
dumps are performed synchronously, we now handle this correctly.]
This solution was provided by Jason Thorpe, after I got him to look at
some related (but insufficient) attempts of my own.
scsipi_xfer structures.
When scsipi_execute_xs() calls the driver's scsi_cmd function, it assumes
that it can still dereference a pointer to the scsipi_xfer struct. Since
scsipi_done() has already been called, which in turn has called
scsipi_free_xs(), the struct has already been returned to the pool! In
other words, xs->flags has been compromised, but we are still testing it.
These changes resolve the problem by doing the following:
- In scsipi_execute_xs(), if the lower-level driver's scsi_cmd function
returns SUCCESSFULLY_QUEUED and SCSI_NOSLEEP is set in xs->flags, set a
new flag (SCSI_ASYNCREQ). This indicates that scsipi_done() should free
the scsipi_xfer struct.
If the lower-level driver's scsi_cmd function returns SUCCESSFULLY_QUEUED
but SCSI_NOSLEEP is not set, we wait (via tsleep()) for the request to
complete, then fall through to the COMPLETE case.
If the lower-level driver's scsi_cmd function returns COMPLETE, we now
simply return any actual errors, or 0 if none occurred. (Previously,
we may have returned EJUSTRETURN, of which the sole effect was to
avoid freeing the scsipi_xfer struct in our caller. No code seems
to depend on this behavior, however.)
- In scsipi_done(), only free the scsipi_xfer struct for async requests.
The contents of the struct will otherwise remain valid until the
function that initiated the transfer frees it.
With this change, responsibility for freeing the struct now lies in two
places, depending on the type of the request:
- For synchronous requests, the routine calling scsipi_execute_xs()
must clean up.
- For asynchronous requests, scsipi_done() cleans up (as it always has).
[Note: this change also corrects a problem with sddump(): scsipi_done()
was attempting to return a static scsipi_xfer struct to the pool! Since
dumps are performed synchronously, we now handle this correctly.]
This solution was provided by Jason Thorpe, after I got him to look at
some related (but insufficient) attempts of my own.
pk