Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: Add BLIST_NO_ASK_VPD_SIZE for some VDASD

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* Lee Duncan <leeman.duncan@xxxxxxxxx> [2022-09-28 11:13:50]:

> From: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Some storage, such as AIX VDASD (virtual storage) and IBM 2076
> (front end) do not like the recent commit:
> 
> commit c92a6b5d6335 ("scsi: core: Query VPD size before getting full page")
> 
> That commit changed getting SCSI VPD pages so that we now read
> just enough of the page to get the actual page size, then read
> the whole page in a second read. The problem is that the above
> mentioned hardware returns zero for the page size, because of
> a firmware error. In such cases, until the firmware is fixed,
> this new black flag says to revert to the original method of
> reading the VPD pages, i.e. try to read as a whole buffer's
> worth on the first try.
> 
> Fixes: c92a6b5d6335 ("scsi: core: Query VPD size before getting full page")
> Reported-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>

Facing similar problem on latest upstream kernel and this fixes it in my
testing.

Incase this helps:

$ lsslot
# Slot                     Description       Linux Name    Device(s)
U9080.HEX.134C1E8-V9-C0    Virtual I/O Slot  30000000      vty
U9080.HEX.134C1E8-V9-C2    Virtual I/O Slot  30000002      l-lan
U9080.HEX.134C1E8-V9-C109  Virtual I/O Slot  3000006d      v-scsi

$ ls-vscsi
host0 U9080.HEX.134C1E8-V9-C109-T0

$ lsscsi
[0:0:1:0]    disk    AIX      VDASD            0001  /dev/sda
[0:0:2:0]    cd/dvd  AIX      VOPTA                  /dev/sr0


Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Srikar Dronamraju