Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination"

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:02:51PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> I disagree. Even if my patch would be reverted that still wouldn't fix
> the severe race condition that was introduced in the mpt3sas driver by
> the patch that triggers the lockup during boot. As I explained two
> weeks ago (see also https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2411413.htm
> l), commit 18f6084a989b ("scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature
> termination") is the one that should be reverted instead of my patch. I
> agree with Linus that the offending mpt3sas patch already should have
> been reverted.

In addition to that ATA passthrough through scsi CDBs is a fringe
feature compared to normal operation of the HBA.