linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] scsi: sr: workaround VMware ESXi cdrom emulation bug

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Message-ID: <20191024085327.GH938@kitsune.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:53:27 +0200
From:   Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] scsi: sr: workaround VMware ESXi cdrom emulation
 bug

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:23:07PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:52:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > 
> > The drive claims to have a tray and claims to be able to close it.
> > However, the UI has no notion of a tray - when medium is ejected it is
> > dropped in the floor and the user must select a medium again before the
> > drive can be re-loaded.  On the kernel side the tray_move call to close
> > the tray succeeds but the drive state does not change as a result of the
> > call.
> > 
> > The drive does not in fact emulate the tray state. There are two ways to
> > get the medium state. One is the SCSI status:
> 
> Given that this is a buggy software emulation we should not add more
> than 100 lines of kernel code to work around it.  Ask VMware to fix
> their mess instead.

And never hear back from them. Not to mention the installed base of
already buggy servers.

Thanks

Michal