Re: [PATCH 7/7] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Correctly handle TEST_UNIT_READY failure

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Mon Jul 14 2014 - 02:17:45 EST


On 07/12/2014 06:48 PM, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
On some Windows hosts on FC SANs, TEST_UNIT_READY can return SRB_STATUS_ERROR.
Correctly handle this. Note that there is sufficient sense information to
support scsi error handling even in this case.

In this version of the patch I have addressed comments from
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
index 9342ba4..29d0329 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -1018,6 +1018,13 @@ static void storvsc_handle_error(struct vmscsi_request *vm_srb,
case ATA_12:
set_host_byte(scmnd, DID_PASSTHROUGH);
break;
+ /*
+ * On Some Windows hosts TEST_UNIT_READY command can return
+ * SRB_STATUS_ERROR, let the upper level code deal with it
+ * based on the sense information.
+ */
+ case TEST_UNIT_READY:
+ break;
default:
set_host_byte(scmnd, DID_TARGET_FAILURE);
}

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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