From 54b2b50c20a61b51199bedb6e5d2f8ec2568fb43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:25:40 -0400 Subject: [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 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/scsi') diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h index 546084964d5..fe3b58e836c 100644 --- a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h @@ -475,6 +475,9 @@ struct scsi_host_template { */ unsigned ordered_tag:1; + /* True if the controller does not support WRITE SAME */ + unsigned no_write_same:1; + /* * Countdown for host blocking with no commands outstanding. */ @@ -677,6 +680,9 @@ struct Scsi_Host { /* Don't resume host in EH */ unsigned eh_noresume:1; + /* The controller does not support WRITE SAME */ + unsigned no_write_same:1; + /* * Optional work queue to be utilized by the transport */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2