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author | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-22 20:13:28 +0000 |
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committer | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-22 20:13:28 +0000 |
commit | ec7938a91df0a860785f3bd531cd22ba1ebb8ae2 (patch) | |
tree | 2a5256bec9cfd9b12d6af1978d016a6d80846a61 /lib/libc/string/index.c | |
parent | f6f0d430cc4156c3b3bfec6b23d1cc7ae53f9848 (diff) | |
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Fix the `tape drive spinning indefinately upon mt stat' problem.
With the recent changes in the CAM error handling, some problems in
the error handling of sa(4) have been uncovered. Basically, a number
of conditions that are not actually errors have been mistreated as
genuine errors. In particular:
. Trying to read in variable length mode with a mismatched blocksize
between the on-tape (virtual) blocks and the read(2) supplied buffer
size, causing an ILI SCSI condition, have caused an attempt to retry
the supposedly `errored' transfer, causing the tape to be read
continuously until it eventually hit EOM. Since by default any
simple mt(1) operation does an initial test read, an `mt stat' was
sufficient to trigger this bug.
Note that it's Justin's opinion that treating a NO SENSE as an EIO
is another bug in CAM. I feel not authorized to fix cam_periph.c
without another confirmation that i'm on the right track, however.
. Hitting a filemark caused the read(2) syscall to return EIO, instead
of returning a `short read'. Note that the current fix only solves
this problem in variable length mode. Fixed length mode uses a
different code path, and since i didn't grok all the intentions behind
that handling, i did not touch it (IOW: it's still broken, and you get
an EIO upon hitting a filemark).
The solution is to keep track of those conditions inside saerror(),
and upon completion to not call cam_periph_error() in that case. We
need to make sure that the device gets unfrozen if needed though (in
case of actual errors, cam_periph_error() does this on our behalf).
Not objected by: mjacob (who currently doesn't have the time to
review the patch)
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