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[1/2] atapi: abort transfers with 0 byte limits

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John Snow July 11, 2015, 1:05 a.m. UTC
We're supposed to abort on transfers like this, unless we fill
Word 125 of our IDENTIFY data with a default transfer size, which
we don't currently do.

This is an ATA error, not a SCSI/ATAPI one.
See ATA8-ACS3 sections 7.17.6.49 or 7.21.5.

If we don't do this, QEMU will loop forever trying to transfer
zero bytes, which isn't particularly useful.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 hw/ide/atapi.c    | 10 +++++++++-
 hw/ide/core.c     |  2 +-
 hw/ide/internal.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Kevin Wolf July 13, 2015, 10:18 a.m. UTC | #1
Am 11.07.2015 um 03:05 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> We're supposed to abort on transfers like this, unless we fill
> Word 125 of our IDENTIFY data with a default transfer size, which
> we don't currently do.
> 
> This is an ATA error, not a SCSI/ATAPI one.
> See ATA8-ACS3 sections 7.17.6.49 or 7.21.5.
> 
> If we don't do this, QEMU will loop forever trying to transfer
> zero bytes, which isn't particularly useful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Of course, one could argue that for a clean separation between the ATA
core and SCSI/ATAPI, this check should really be done in cmd_packet and
ide_abort_command() could stay static. And in fact, I do think it's
worthwhile to try getting a better separation in the mid term.

However, for a 2.4 fix, this patch might be the right thing to do.

The interesting part is that the SCSI command is already partially
handled before the error is returned. The required assumption here is
that the guest doesn't actually see any intermediate state between
issuing the command and getting the abort, so it doesn't notice that we
already started the command successfully. I _think_ that assumption
holds true.

Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
John Snow July 13, 2015, 3:09 p.m. UTC | #2
On 07/13/2015 06:18 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 11.07.2015 um 03:05 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>> We're supposed to abort on transfers like this, unless we fill
>> Word 125 of our IDENTIFY data with a default transfer size, which
>> we don't currently do.
>>
>> This is an ATA error, not a SCSI/ATAPI one.
>> See ATA8-ACS3 sections 7.17.6.49 or 7.21.5.
>>
>> If we don't do this, QEMU will loop forever trying to transfer
>> zero bytes, which isn't particularly useful.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> 
> Of course, one could argue that for a clean separation between the ATA
> core and SCSI/ATAPI, this check should really be done in cmd_packet and
> ide_abort_command() could stay static. And in fact, I do think it's
> worthwhile to try getting a better separation in the mid term.
> 
> However, for a 2.4 fix, this patch might be the right thing to do.
> 
> The interesting part is that the SCSI command is already partially
> handled before the error is returned. The required assumption here is
> that the guest doesn't actually see any intermediate state between
> issuing the command and getting the abort, so it doesn't notice that we
> already started the command successfully. I _think_ that assumption
> holds true.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> 

Yes, in theory it should be handled in cmd_packet, but it needs to know
in advance all of the commands that obey the byte count limit and that
information didn't seem easy to extract from the specification.

This is indeed a hack, but it's effective for now.

--js
John Snow Aug. 25, 2015, 12:25 a.m. UTC | #3
On 07/13/2015 06:18 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 11.07.2015 um 03:05 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>> We're supposed to abort on transfers like this, unless we fill
>> Word 125 of our IDENTIFY data with a default transfer size, which
>> we don't currently do.
>>
>> This is an ATA error, not a SCSI/ATAPI one.
>> See ATA8-ACS3 sections 7.17.6.49 or 7.21.5.
>>
>> If we don't do this, QEMU will loop forever trying to transfer
>> zero bytes, which isn't particularly useful.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> 
> Of course, one could argue that for a clean separation between the ATA
> core and SCSI/ATAPI, this check should really be done in cmd_packet and
> ide_abort_command() could stay static. And in fact, I do think it's
> worthwhile to try getting a better separation in the mid term.
> 
> However, for a 2.4 fix, this patch might be the right thing to do.
> 
> The interesting part is that the SCSI command is already partially
> handled before the error is returned. The required assumption here is
> that the guest doesn't actually see any intermediate state between
> issuing the command and getting the abort, so it doesn't notice that we
> already started the command successfully. I _think_ that assumption
> holds true.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> 

Ping --

Do you still feel it's necessary we perform the abort in the IDE layer?
This requires us to peek into the CDB and determine if the CDB will (or
will not) transfer any data.

Is that sane? Is that worse than exporting ide_abort_command into the
ATAPI layer?

Pretty much either way, the ATA bits need to know about the SCSI packet,
or the ATAPI bits need to invoke core ATA functionality.

It's sort of gross, since the spec unfortunately allows for this field
to be zero if the command does not transfer data. :(

--js
Kevin Wolf Sept. 1, 2015, 12:06 p.m. UTC | #4
Am 25.08.2015 um 02:25 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> 
> 
> On 07/13/2015 06:18 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 11.07.2015 um 03:05 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> >> We're supposed to abort on transfers like this, unless we fill
> >> Word 125 of our IDENTIFY data with a default transfer size, which
> >> we don't currently do.
> >>
> >> This is an ATA error, not a SCSI/ATAPI one.
> >> See ATA8-ACS3 sections 7.17.6.49 or 7.21.5.
> >>
> >> If we don't do this, QEMU will loop forever trying to transfer
> >> zero bytes, which isn't particularly useful.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Of course, one could argue that for a clean separation between the ATA
> > core and SCSI/ATAPI, this check should really be done in cmd_packet and
> > ide_abort_command() could stay static. And in fact, I do think it's
> > worthwhile to try getting a better separation in the mid term.
> > 
> > However, for a 2.4 fix, this patch might be the right thing to do.
> > 
> > The interesting part is that the SCSI command is already partially
> > handled before the error is returned. The required assumption here is
> > that the guest doesn't actually see any intermediate state between
> > issuing the command and getting the abort, so it doesn't notice that we
> > already started the command successfully. I _think_ that assumption
> > holds true.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > 
> 
> Ping --
> 
> Do you still feel it's necessary we perform the abort in the IDE layer?

I can hardly say that it's necessary, but it might be desirable.

> This requires us to peek into the CDB and determine if the CDB will (or
> will not) transfer any data.
> 
> Is that sane? Is that worse than exporting ide_abort_command into the
> ATAPI layer?

No, core.c looking at the CDB is definitely not sane.

> Pretty much either way, the ATA bits need to know about the SCSI packet,
> or the ATAPI bits need to invoke core ATA functionality.
> 
> It's sort of gross, since the spec unfortunately allows for this field
> to be zero if the command does not transfer data. :(

The only reasonable way to do this that I can think of offhand would be
to return this information from ide_atapi_cmd().

Of course, the current structure of the code doesn't make this easy. But
in theory it can be done if (and only if) no asynchronous operation is
involved and the command is completed while ide_atapi_cmd() is running.
As I said in my review above, we already make that assumption; if it
weren't true, our current behaviour would be wrong.

In order to actually implement things this way, we would need to first
restructure the commands to move completion to ide_atapi_cmd() instead
of duplicating it in each command; I already mentioned this as a
possible improvement of the code in our private email thread.

Kevin
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Patch

diff --git a/hw/ide/atapi.c b/hw/ide/atapi.c
index 950e311..1efdefc 100644
--- a/hw/ide/atapi.c
+++ b/hw/ide/atapi.c
@@ -213,8 +213,16 @@  void ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end(IDEState *s)
 #ifdef DEBUG_IDE_ATAPI
             printf("byte_count_limit=%d\n", byte_count_limit);
 #endif
-            if (byte_count_limit == 0xffff)
+            if (byte_count_limit == 0x00) {
+                /* This command aborts at the /ATA/ level, not the ATAPI level.
+                 * See ATA8 ACS3 section 7.17.6.49 and 7.21.5 */
+                ide_abort_command(s);
+                return;
+            } else if (byte_count_limit == 0xffff) {
+                /* ATA8 ACS3 7.21.5 */
                 byte_count_limit--;
+            }
+
             size = s->packet_transfer_size;
             if (size > byte_count_limit) {
                 /* byte count limit must be even if this case */
diff --git a/hw/ide/core.c b/hw/ide/core.c
index 122e955..a3a8365 100644
--- a/hw/ide/core.c
+++ b/hw/ide/core.c
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@  BlockAIOCB *ide_issue_trim(BlockBackend *blk,
     return &iocb->common;
 }
 
-static inline void ide_abort_command(IDEState *s)
+void ide_abort_command(IDEState *s)
 {
     ide_transfer_stop(s);
     s->status = READY_STAT | ERR_STAT;
diff --git a/hw/ide/internal.h b/hw/ide/internal.h
index 30fdcbc..40e1aa4 100644
--- a/hw/ide/internal.h
+++ b/hw/ide/internal.h
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@  void ide_set_sector(IDEState *s, int64_t sector_num);
 
 void ide_start_dma(IDEState *s, BlockCompletionFunc *cb);
 void ide_dma_error(IDEState *s);
+void ide_abort_command(IDEState *s);
 
 void ide_atapi_cmd_ok(IDEState *s);
 void ide_atapi_cmd_error(IDEState *s, int sense_key, int asc);