linux-kernel - [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to unsent scsi commands after kexec reboot

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:31:19 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mike.miller@...com, iss_storagedev@...com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to unsent scsi commands after kexec reboot

Hey -
	cciss hardware currently can continue to send responses to scsi commands
after the host system has undergone a kexec reboot.  The way the drier is
currently written, reception of these commands results in a BUG halt, since it
can't match the response to any issued command since the boot.  This patch
corrects that by using the kexec reset_devices command line paramter to force
ignore any commands that it cant correlate.

Regards
Neil

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>


 cciss.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)


diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index 5acc6c4..ec1c1d2 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -2131,6 +2131,14 @@ static int add_sendcmd_reject(__u8 cmd, int ctlr, unsigned long complete)
 		       ctlr, complete);
 		/* not much we can do. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
+		/* We might get notification of completion of commands
+		 * which we never issued in this kernel if this boot is
+		 * taking place after previous kernel's crash. Simply
+		 * ignore the commands in this case.
+		 */
+		if (reset_devices)
+			return 0;
+
 		return 1;
 	}
 
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