when the sg driver is unable to setup direct IO, free that scatter
gather list prior to falling back to indirect IO
Further to this thread started by Bryan Holty:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=
114306885116728&w=2
Here is the reworked patch again. This time it has been
tested with a program provided by Bryan.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
res = st_map_user_pages(schp->buffer, mx_sc_elems,
(unsigned long)hp->dxferp, dxfer_len,
(SG_DXFER_TO_DEV == hp->dxfer_direction) ? 1 : 0);
- if (res <= 0)
+ if (res <= 0) {
+ sg_remove_scat(schp);
return 1;
+ }
schp->k_use_sg = res;
schp->dio_in_use = 1;
hp->info |= SG_INFO_DIRECT_IO;