[PATCH 3.4 10/26] libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Nov 09 2013 - 01:49:47 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 upstream.

libata EH decrements scmd->retries when the command failed for reasons
unrelated to the command itself so that, for example, commands aborted
due to suspend / resume cycle don't get penalized; however,
decrementing scmd->retries isn't enough for ATA passthrough commands.

Without this fix, ATA passthrough commands are not resend to the
drive, and no error is signalled to the caller because:

- allowed retry count is 1
- ata_eh_qc_complete fill the sense data, so result is valid
- sense data is filled with untouched ATA registers.

Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -1287,14 +1287,14 @@ void ata_eh_qc_complete(struct ata_queue
* should be retried. To be used from EH.
*
* SCSI midlayer limits the number of retries to scmd->allowed.
- * scmd->retries is decremented for commands which get retried
+ * scmd->allowed is incremented for commands which get retried
* due to unrelated failures (qc->err_mask is zero).
*/
void ata_eh_qc_retry(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
{
struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = qc->scsicmd;
- if (!qc->err_mask && scmd->retries)
- scmd->retries--;
+ if (!qc->err_mask)
+ scmd->allowed++;
__ata_eh_qc_complete(qc);
}



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