Problem Simulating REMOVAL Media
From: Mukund JB.
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 03:35:54 EST
Dear Linux Kernel Govers,
Here I am making an attempt to simulate the Removable media in a Simple
block driver module.
It results in a segmentation fault raising the kernel module count to 1
which makes me to reboot it.
I am doing the following when trying to simulate the Removable media:
/******* Simple block Driver request ********/
static void sbd_request(request_queue_t *q)
{
struct request *req;
int status;
while ((req = elv_next_request(q)) != NULL) {
if (! blk_fs_request(req)) {
printk (KERN_NOTICE "Skip non-CMD request\n");
end_request(req, 0);
continue;
}
/* Simple memcpy based on the request ;
Returns success or failure which is passed to end_that_request_first()
*/
status = sbd_transfer(&Device, req->sector,
req->current_nr_sectors,
req->buffer, rq_data_dir(req));
// end_request(req, 1);
if(!end_that_request_first(req, status, req->current_nr_sectors))
{
blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
end_that_request_last(req);
}
}
I issue an IOCTL from the application after the module is loaded and
memory device is mounted.
The IOCTL code executed is as follows:
/* Simulate the Removal Media Disk */
Case REMOVE_MOUNTED_DISK:
if(Device.bdev)
invalidate_bdev(Device.bdev,1);
del_gendisk(Device.gd);
put_disk(Device.gd);
blk_cleanup_queue(Queue);
vfree(Device.data);
return 0;
After this, I get a segmentation fault either when I issue a
#ls /mnt
OR
When I try to unload the driver module?
Result is module cannot be unloaded, and some times it hangs the console
terminal.
Regards,
Mukund Jampala
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