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    libata-scsi: disable SCT Write Same for the moment · e185934f
    Nicolai Stange authored
    SCT Write Same support had been introduced with
    commit 7b203094 ("libata: Add support for SCT Write Same")
    
    Some problems, namely excessive userspace segfaults, had been reported at
    
      http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908192736.GA4356@gmail.com
    
    This lead to commit 0ce1b18c ("libata: Some drives failing on
    SCT Write Same") which strived to disable SCT Write Same on !ZAC devices.
    Due to the way this was done and to the logic in sd_config_write_same(),
    this didn't work for those devices that have
    ->max_ws_blocks > SD_MAX_WS10_BLOCKS: for these, ->no_write_same and
    ->max_write_same_sectors would still be non-zero,
    but ->ws10 == ->ws16 == 0. This would cause sd_setup_write_same_cmnd() to
    demultiplex REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME requests to WRITE_SAME, and these in turn
    aren't supported by libata-scsi:
    
      EXT4-fs (dm-1): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 2625094 at
                      logical offset 2032 with max blocks 2 with error 121
      EXT4-fs (dm-1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
    
    121 == EREMOTEIO is what scsi_io_completion() asserts in case of
    invalid opcodes.
    
    Back to the original problem of userspace segfaults: this can be tracked
    down to ata_format_sct_write_same() overwriting the input page. Sometimes,
    this page is ZERO_PAGE(0) which ceases to be filled with zeros from that
    point on. Since ZERO_PAGE(0) is used for userspace .bss mappings, code of
    the following is doomed:
    
      static char *a = NULL; /* .bss */
      ...
      if (a)
        *a = 'a';
    
    This problem is not solved by disabling SCT Write Same for !ZAC devices
    only.
    
    It can certainly be fixed, but the final release is quite close -- so
    disable SCT Write Same for all ATA devices rather than introducing some
    SCT key buffer allocation schemes at this point.
    
    Fixes: 7b203094 ("libata: Add support for SCT Write Same")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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