Re: [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] Fix a bug in deriving the FLUSH_TIMEOUT from the basic I/O timeout

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2014 - 11:10:55 EST


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:53:33PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> I still see this problem. There was talk of fixing it elsewhere.

Well, what we have right not is entirely broken, given that the
block layer doesn't initialize ->timeout on TYPE_FS requeuests.

We either need to revert that initial commit or apply something like
the attached patch as a quick fix.