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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2013-10-23 06:25:40 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2013-11-29 08:48:39 +0400
commit54b2b50c20a61b51199bedb6e5d2f8ec2568fb43 (patch)
tree8bff3a0f9bc3a5577cb4191ee8043aa98d081b87 /drivers/scsi/hosts.c
parentae5fbae0ccd982dfca0ce363036ed92f5b13f150 (diff)
downloadlinux-54b2b50c20a61b51199bedb6e5d2f8ec2568fb43.tar.gz
[SCSI] Disable WRITE SAME for RAID and virtual host adapter drivers
Some host adapters do not pass commands through to the target disk
directly. Instead they provide an emulated target which may or may not
accurately report its capabilities. In some cases the physical device
characteristics are reported even when the host adapter is processing
commands on the device's behalf. This can lead to adapter firmware hangs
or excessive I/O errors.

This patch disables WRITE SAME for devices connected to host adapters
that provide an emulated target. Driver writers can disable WRITE SAME
by setting the no_write_same flag in the host adapter template.

[jejb: fix up rejections due to eh_deadline patch]
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/hosts.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/hosts.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
index f334859024c0..f2c5005f312a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_alloc(struct scsi_host_template *sht, int privsize)
 	shost->use_clustering = sht->use_clustering;
 	shost->ordered_tag = sht->ordered_tag;
 	shost->eh_deadline = shost_eh_deadline * HZ;
+	shost->no_write_same = sht->no_write_same;
 
 	if (sht->supported_mode == MODE_UNKNOWN)
 		/* means we didn't set it ... default to INITIATOR */