[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)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:58:12 +0000 (09:58 +0100)
commitaf73623f5f10eb3832c87a169b28f7df040a875b
tree0a7d02f6129de16d39abf6100a291b5b149ffa95
parent51d648af5892219cbe97305efb300d3e56746591
[SCSI] sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # delay inclusion for 2 months for testing
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/scsi/sd.c