Will this bug ever get fixed or shall I buy another disk? :)
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Title:
disks hang as atasmart is sending illegal smart command to "green"
disk
Status in “libatasmart” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
SUMMARY:
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format)
Device Model: WDC WD20EARX-32PASB0
Appears to be sensitive to illegal smart commands.
The entire drive stalls to handle this creating a massive interruption
(HANG) of service until the error is handled.
SOLUTION:
Actually check to see if a command is supported before blindly
sending it to a target.
DETAILS:
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630081] ata7.00: exception Emask
0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630087] ata7.00: failed command: SMART
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630094] ata7.00: cmd
b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630094] res
40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630096] ata7.00: status: { DRDY }
Dec 17 14:57:00 goblin kernel: [ 1274.630101] ata7: hard resetting link
Dec 17 14:57:01 goblin kernel: [ 1275.121558] ata7: SATA link up 3.0
Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Dec 17 14:57:01 goblin kernel: [ 1275.137456] ata7.00: configured for
UDMA/133
Dec 17 14:57:01 goblin kernel: [ 1275.137496] ata7: EH complete
This was traced down to this offending process.
/usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
which is linked to libatasmart
What the actual offending command is SMART (B0) with feature (D1)
READ THRESHOLDS. D1 is unsupported in recent versions of ATA, I only
have specs that go back to ATA-6. According to the kernel sources, this
feature is only used in the legacy IDE stack so it's very very old[1].
What I found is udisk is calling these functions:
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: if (sk_disk_smart_read_data (d) != 0)
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: "sk_disk_smart_read_data: %m");
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: if (sk_disk_smart_status (d, &good) != 0)
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: "sk_disk_smart_status: %m");
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: if (sk_disk_smart_self_test (d, test) != 0)
src/udiskslinuxdriveata.c: "sk_disk_smart_self_test: %m");
which all call a static function in libatasmart called "smart_init"
unconditionally,
which then unconditionally calls "disk_smart_read_thresholds".
static int disk_smart_read_thresholds(SkDisk *d) {
uint16_t cmd[6];
int ret;
size_t len = 512;
...
cmd[0] = htons(SK_SMART_COMMAND_READ_THRESHOLDS);
cmd[1] = htons(1);
cmd[2] = htons(0x0000U);
cmd[3] = htons(0x00C2U);
cmd[4] = htons(0x4F00U);
}
...
typedef enum SkSmartCommand {
SK_SMART_COMMAND_READ_DATA = 0xD0,
SK_SMART_COMMAND_READ_THRESHOLDS = 0xD1,
Which is our offending feature.
So anything that calls:
int sk_disk_smart_read_data(SkDisk *d) {
int sk_disk_smart_status(SkDisk *d, SkBool *good) {
int sk_disk_smart_self_test(SkDisk *d, SkSmartSelfTest test) {
is impacted by this.
REPRODUCTION:
A small C program to trigger a read_threshold on demand, it should create
a syslog trace and a HARD RESET to compose itself.
# sudo apt-get install -y libatasmart-dev
# gcc -o read_thresh_test skreadthreshold.c -latasmart
# sudo ./read_thresh_test /dev/sdX, where X is suspect device
/*
* Author: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petra...@canonical.com>
*
* skreadthreshold.c
*
* Trigger HARD RESET by sending illegal smart command
* READ THRESHOLD, to modern, standard's compliant disks
*
* # sudo apt-get install -y libatasmart-dev
* # gcc -o read_thresh_test skreadthreshold.c -latasmart
* # sudo ./read_thresh_test /dev/sdX, where X is suspect device
*/
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "atasmart.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int ret;
const char *device;
SkDisk *d;
device = argv[1];
if ((ret = sk_disk_open(device, &d)) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open disk %s: %s\n", device,
strerror(errno));
return 1;
}
/*
* disk_smart_read_thresholds is static and called
* by init_smart unconditionally
*/
ret = sk_disk_smart_read_data(d);
fprintf(stdout, "read threshold returned: %d\n", ret);
sk_disk_free(d);
return 0;
}
1. drivers/ide/ide-disk_proc.c
return __idedisk_proc_show(m, m->private, ATA_SMART_READ_THRESHOLDS);
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libatasmart4 0.19-1git1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 20 11:59:08 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-28 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: libatasmart
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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