SCSI: Disable WRITE SAME for RAID and virtual host adapter drivers
authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:25:40 +0000 (06:25 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:36:28 +0000 (22:36 -0800)
commit8562d028775e7c88fc7fa8c5deaa791392892778
tree8b40e1f29bf66978ef17364bc583f74d3a5fc614
parent5e43e33a63d72c6bd30f9fa14a9e82ffb58be422
SCSI: Disable WRITE SAME for RAID and virtual host adapter drivers

commit 54b2b50c20a61b51199bedb6e5d2f8ec2568fb43 upstream.

Some host adapters do not pass commands through to the target disk
directly. Instead they provide an emulated target which may or may not
accurately report its capabilities. In some cases the physical device
characteristics are reported even when the host adapter is processing
commands on the device's behalf. This can lead to adapter firmware hangs
or excessive I/O errors.

This patch disables WRITE SAME for devices connected to host adapters
that provide an emulated target. Driver writers can disable WRITE SAME
by setting the no_write_same flag in the host adapter template.

[jejb: fix up rejections due to eh_deadline patch]
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
19 files changed:
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
drivers/firewire/sbp2.c
drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c
drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c
drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
drivers/scsi/gdth.c
drivers/scsi/hosts.c
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
drivers/scsi/ipr.c
drivers/scsi/ips.c
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
drivers/scsi/sd.c
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
include/scsi/scsi_host.h