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authorHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2010-10-01 14:20:10 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-10-22 10:22:05 -0700
commit5ce524bdff367b4abda20bcfd4dafd9d30c773df (patch)
tree97b48a75d6a475cb71367d3a1ce7cc7f17680122 /drivers
parentae38c78a03e1b77ad45248fcf097e4568e740209 (diff)
scsi/sd: add a no_read_capacity_16 scsi_device flag
I seem to have a knack for digging up buggy usb devices which don't work with Linux, and I'm crazy enough to try to make them work. So this time a friend of mine asked me to get an mp4 player (an mp3 player which can play videos on a small screen) to work with Linux. It is based on the well known rockbox chipset for which we already have an unusual devs entries to work around some of its bugs. But this model comes with an additional twist. This model chokes on read_capacity_16 calls. Now normally we don't make those calls, but this model comes with an sdcard slot and when there is no card in there (and shipped from the factory there is none), it reports a size of 0. However this time the programmers actually got the read_capacity_10 response right! So they substract one from the size as stored internally in the mp3 player before reporting it back, resulting in an answer of ... 0xffffffff sectors, causing sd.c to try a read_capacity_16, on which the device crashes. This patch adds a flag to scsi_device to indicate that a a device cannot handle read_capacity_16, and when this flag is set if a device reports an lba of 0xffffffff as answer to a read_capacity_10, assumes it tries to report a size of 0. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/sd.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index ffa0689ee84..ff4c9a3aa5b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1498,6 +1498,9 @@ static int read_capacity_16(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, struct scsi_device *sdp,
unsigned long long lba;
unsigned sector_size;
+ if (sdp->no_read_capacity_16)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
do {
memset(cmd, 0, 16);
cmd[0] = SERVICE_ACTION_IN;
@@ -1626,6 +1629,15 @@ static int read_capacity_10(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, struct scsi_device *sdp,
sector_size = get_unaligned_be32(&buffer[4]);
lba = get_unaligned_be32(&buffer[0]);
+ if (sdp->no_read_capacity_16 && (lba == 0xffffffff)) {
+ /* Some buggy (usb cardreader) devices return an lba of
+ 0xffffffff when the want to report a size of 0 (with
+ which they really mean no media is present) */
+ sdkp->capacity = 0;
+ sdkp->hw_sector_size = sector_size;
+ return sector_size;
+ }
+
if ((sizeof(sdkp->capacity) == 4) && (lba == 0xffffffff)) {
sd_printk(KERN_ERR, sdkp, "Too big for this kernel. Use a "
"kernel compiled with support for large block "