Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthru commands

[Bart Van Assche]

On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 09:01 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> From b47c28434e9cee9cbb95a794c97ec53657408111 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: James Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 09:39:24 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthru commands
> 
> mp3sas has a firmware failure where it can only handle one pass
> through ATA command at a time.  If another comes in, contrary to the
> SAT standard, it will hang until the first one completes (causing long
> commands like secure erase to timeout).  The original fix was to block
> the device when an ATA command came in, but this caused a regression
> with
> 
> commit 669f044170d8933c3d66d231b69ea97cb8447338
> Author: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Nov 22 16:17:13 2016 -0800
> 
>     scsi: srp_transport: Move queuecommand() wait code to SCSI core
> 
> So fix the original fix of the secure erase timeout by properly
> returning SAM_STAT_BUSY like the SAT recommends.
> 
> Fixes: 18f6084a989ba1b38702f9af37a2e4049a924be6
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello James,

This description looks incomplete to me. It doesn't mention the race
condition that was introduced by patch "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure
erase premature termination". Please also follow the guidelines from
process/submitting-patches.rst for the "Fixes:" tag. A quote from that
document: "please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters
of the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary". Please also fix the
spelling of the adapter name "mp3sas".

Thanks,

Bart.