When sending a SCSI command to a tape drive via the SCSI Generic (sg)
driver, if the command has a data transfer length more than
scatter_elem_sz (32 KB default) and not a multiple of 512, then I either
hit BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(direction)) in dma_unmap_sg() or else
the command never completes (depending on the LLDD).

When constructing scatterlists, the sg driver rounds up the scatterlist
element sizes to be a multiple of 512.  This can result in
sum(scatterlist lengths) > bufflen.  In this case, scsi_req_map_sg()
incorrectly sets bio->bi_size to sum(scatterlist lengths) rather than to
bufflen.  When the command completes, req_bio_endio() detects that
bio->bi_size != 0, and so it doesn't call bio_endio().  This causes the
command to be resubmitted, resulting in BUG_ON or the command never
completing.

This patch makes scsi_req_map_sg() set bio->bi_size to bufflen rather
than to sum(scatterlist lengths), which fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- linux-2.6.24-git14/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c.orig     2008-02-05 
09:33:05.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.24-git14/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c  2008-02-05 09:33:10.000000000 
-0500
@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ static int scsi_req_map_sg(struct reques
                page = sg_page(sg);
                off = sg->offset;
                len = sg->length;
-               data_len += len;
 
                while (len > 0 && data_len > 0) {
                        /*


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