Commands needing to be retried (TUR in this case) would result in a block I/O request being re-used, without being re-initialized properly. This patch ensures that the requests are correctly re-initialized via standard allocation means. Prior to this patch, boots were failing consistently as in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/161 With this patch in place, the system is booting reliably. Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle Cc: Jens Axboe --- drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c index 9aec4ca..1f6b6a8 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static int hp_sw_tur(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct hp_sw_dh_data *h) struct request *req; int ret; +retry: req = blk_get_request(sdev->request_queue, WRITE, GFP_NOIO); if (!req) return SCSI_DH_RES_TEMP_UNAVAIL; @@ -121,7 +122,6 @@ static int hp_sw_tur(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct hp_sw_dh_data *h) memset(req->sense, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); req->sense_len = 0; -retry: ret = blk_execute_rq(req->q, NULL, req, 1); if (ret == -EIO) { if (req->sense_len > 0) { @@ -136,8 +136,10 @@ retry: h->path_state = HP_SW_PATH_ACTIVE; ret = SCSI_DH_OK; } - if (ret == SCSI_DH_IMM_RETRY) + if (ret == SCSI_DH_IMM_RETRY) { + blk_put_request(req); goto retry; + } if (ret == SCSI_DH_DEV_OFFLINED) { h->path_state = HP_SW_PATH_PASSIVE; ret = SCSI_DH_OK; -- 1.5.6.3