Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: fnic: Stop setting scsi_cmnd.tag

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Sat Aug 14 2021 - 08:36:14 EST


On 8/14/21 9:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:17:45PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
On 8/13/21 6:49 AM, John Garry wrote:
It is never read. Setting it and the request tag seems dodgy
anyway.

This is done because there is code in the SCSI error handler that may
allocate a SCSI command without allocating a tag. See also
scsi_ioctl_reset().

Yes. Hannes had a great series to stop passing the pointless scsi_cmnd
to the reset methods. Hannes, any chance you coul look into
resurrecting that?

Sure.

Cheers,

Hannes
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