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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:16:14 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scsi_error: do not allow IO errors with certain ILLEGAL_REQUEST sense to be retryable

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com> writes:

>> I don't have a fundamental problem with your patch. But since we
>> explicitly handle ILLEGAL REQUEST with 0x20 and 0x24 in sd.c I wonder
>> what's broken? We should disable discard support if the WRITE SAME w/
>> UNMAP fails.

Mike> Yeah, I thought the disabling would be sufficient too.  But
Mike> unfortunately multipath doesn't inspect the request it is retrying
Mike> (after it fails the path the request just failed on).

Well, we shouldn't be returning something that multipath should ever act
on.

I think I understand what's going on. Can you try the following patch?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering


diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index b2c95db..4e8d0b6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, unsigned int good_bytes)
 				    cmd->cmnd[0] == WRITE_SAME_16 ||
 				    cmd->cmnd[0] == WRITE_SAME)) {
 				description = "Discard failure";
+				error = -EREMOTEIO;
 				action = ACTION_FAIL;
 			} else
 				action = ACTION_FAIL;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index c691fb5..5f0d383 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -497,6 +497,8 @@ static void sd_config_discard(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned int mode)
 		max(sdkp->physical_block_size,
 		    sdkp->unmap_granularity * logical_block_size);
 
+	sdkp->provisioning_mode = mode;
+
 	switch (mode) {
 
 	case SD_LBP_DISABLE:
@@ -524,8 +526,6 @@ static void sd_config_discard(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned int mode)
 
 	q->limits.max_discard_sectors = max_blocks * (logical_block_size >> 9);
 	queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);
-
-	sdkp->provisioning_mode = mode;
 }
 
 /**
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