[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)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:48:39 +0000 (08:48 +0400)
commit54b2b50c20a61b51199bedb6e5d2f8ec2568fb43
tree8bff3a0f9bc3a5577cb4191ee8043aa98d081b87
parentae5fbae0ccd982dfca0ce363036ed92f5b13f150
[SCSI] Disable WRITE SAME for RAID and virtual host adapter drivers

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>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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