From: Horst Hummel The first blocks on a cdl formatted dasd device are smaller than the blocksize of the device. Read requests are padded with a 'e5' pattern. Write requests should not pad the (user) buffer with 'e5' because a write request is not allowed to modify the buffer. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c~s390-dont-pad-cdl-blocks-for-write-requests drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c --- 25/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c~s390-dont-pad-cdl-blocks-for-write-requests 2005-04-26 03:41:17.276931832 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c 2005-04-26 03:41:17.280931224 -0700 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ * Bugreports.to..: * (C) IBM Corporation, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, 1999,2000 * - * $Revision: 1.69 $ + * $Revision: 1.71 $ */ #include @@ -1101,7 +1101,8 @@ dasd_eckd_build_cp(struct dasd_device * if (dasd_eckd_cdl_special(blk_per_trk, recid)){ rcmd |= 0x8; count = dasd_eckd_cdl_reclen(recid); - if (count < blksize) + if (count < blksize && + rq_data_dir(req) == READ) memset(dst + count, 0xe5, blksize - count); } _