[SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors

The last_sector_bug flag was added to work around a bug in certain usb
cardreaders, where they would crash if a multiple sector read included the
last sector. The original implementation avoids this by e.g. splitting an 8
sector read which includes the last sector into a 7 sector read, and a single
sector read for the last sector.  The flag is enabled for all USB devices.

This revealed a second bug in other usb cardreaders, which crash when they
get a multiple sector read which stops 1 sector short of the last sector.
Affected hardware includes the Kingston "MobileLite" external USB cardreader
and the internal USB cardreader on the Asus EeePC.

Extend the last_sector_bug workaround to ensure that any access which touches
the last 8 hardware sectors of the device is a single sector long.  Requests
are shrunk as necessary to meet this constraint.

This gives us a safety margin against potential unknown or future bugs
affecting multi-sector access to the end of the device.  The two known bugs
only affect the last 2 sectors.  However, they suggest that these devices
are prone to fencepost errors and that multi-sector access to the end of the
device is not well tested.  Popular OS's use multi-sector accesses, but they
rarely read the last few sectors.  Linux (with udev & vol_id) automatically
reads sectors from the end of the device on insertion.  It is assumed that
single sector accesses are more thoroughly tested during development.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index 9cecc409f0f8..291d56a19167 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ struct scsi_device {
 	unsigned fix_capacity:1;	/* READ_CAPACITY is too high by 1 */
 	unsigned guess_capacity:1;	/* READ_CAPACITY might be too high by 1 */
 	unsigned retry_hwerror:1;	/* Retry HARDWARE_ERROR */
-	unsigned last_sector_bug:1;	/* Always read last sector in a 1 sector read */
+	unsigned last_sector_bug:1;	/* do not use multisector accesses on
+					   SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS */
 
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(supported_events, SDEV_EVT_MAXBITS); /* supported events */
 	struct list_head event_list;	/* asserted events */