Re: boot failure with 4.13.0-rc6 due to ATA errors
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 11:31:05 EST
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:08:05AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/29/17 6:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > ---
> > From e661047ec3a25587648b07c02a687a7dac778f3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:35:50 +0200
> > Subject: libata: check for trusted computing in IDENTIFY DEVICE data
> >
> > ATA-8 and later mirrors the TRUSTED COMPUTING SUPPORTED bit in word 48 of
> > the IDENTIFY DEVICE data. Check this before issuing a READ LOG PAGE
> > command to avoid issues with buggy devices. The only downside is that
> > we can't support Security Send / Receive for a device with an older
> > revision due to the conflicting use of this field in earlier
> > specifications.
Christoph, I'm gonna revert the horkage patch and apply this one. If
you can think of a better way to do this, please let me know.
Thanks.
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tejun