Re: boot failure with 4.13.0-rc6 due to ATA errors

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 11:38:40 EST


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:42:06PM +0200, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Applied to libata/for-4.13-fixes.

Thanks.

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tejun