2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo commit 4f7c2874995ac48a4622755b8bd159eb2fb6d8f4 upstream. Commit 842faa6c1a1d6faddf3377948e5cf214812c6c90 fixed error handling during attach by not committing detected device class to dev->class while attaching a new device. However, this change missed the PMP class check in the configuration loop causing a new PMP device to go through ata_dev_configure() as if it were an ATA or ATAPI device. As PMP device doesn't have a regular IDENTIFY data, this makes ata_dev_configure() tries to configure a PMP device using an invalid data. For the most part, it wasn't too harmful and went unnoticed but this ends up clearing dev->flags which may have ATA_DFLAG_AN set by sata_pmp_attach(). This means that SATA_PMP_FEAT_NOTIFY ends up being disabled on PMPs and on PMPs which honor the flag breaks hotplug support. This problem was discovered and reported by Ethan Hsiao. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Ethan Hsiao Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c @@ -2849,12 +2849,14 @@ static int ata_eh_revalidate_and_attach( * device detection messages backwards. */ ata_for_each_dev(dev, link, ALL) { - if (!(new_mask & (1 << dev->devno)) || - dev->class == ATA_DEV_PMP) + if (!(new_mask & (1 << dev->devno))) continue; dev->class = ehc->classes[dev->devno]; + if (dev->class == ATA_DEV_PMP) + continue; + ehc->i.flags |= ATA_EHI_PRINTINFO; rc = ata_dev_configure(dev); ehc->i.flags &= ~ATA_EHI_PRINTINFO; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/