SCSI: sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request
authorBernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:47:32 +0000 (14:47 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:28:53 +0000 (15:28 -0800)
commitaf313b03198d1bbb13e83793416b229d6b1c810d
tree50f166a75dd5e880e238fa5676c4afb9d87d05bd
parentd0ccf8a11507ae170d8db47babad5331a4cdb33f
SCSI: sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request

commit af73623f5f10eb3832c87a169b28f7df040a875b upstream.

Somehow older areca firmware versions have issues with
scsi_get_vpd_page() and a large buffer, the firmware
seems to crash and the scsi error-handler will start endless
recovery retries.
Limiting the buf-size to 64-bytes fixes this issue with older
firmware versions (<1.49 for my controller).

Fixes a regression with areca controllers and older firmware versions
introduced by commit: 66c28f97120e8a621afd5aa7a31c4b85c547d33d

Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Tested-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Acked-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>
drivers/scsi/sd.c