----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jeffery" <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 12:27:26 PM
> Subject: [PATCH] vmw_pvscsi: return SUCCESS for successful command aborts
>
>
> The vmw_pvscsi driver reports most successful aborts as FAILED to the scsi
> error handler. This is do to a misunderstanding of how completion_done()
> works
> and its interaction with a successful wait using
> wait_for_completion_timeout().
> The vmw_pvscsi driver is expecting completion_done() to always return true if
> complete() has been called on the completion structure. But
> completion_done()
> returns true after complete() has been called only if no function like
> wait_for_completion_timeout() has seen the completion and cleared it as part
> of
> successfully waiting for the completion.
>
> Instead of using completion_done(), vmw_pvscsi should just use the return
> value from wait_for_completion_timeout() to know if the wait timed out or
> not.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> vmw_pvscsi.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
> @@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ static int pvscsi_abort(struct scsi_cmnd
> unsigned long flags;
> int result = SUCCESS;
> DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(abort_cmp);
> + int done;
>
> scmd_printk(KERN_DEBUG, cmd, "task abort on host %u, %p\n",
> adapter->host->host_no, cmd);
> @@ -824,10 +825,10 @@ static int pvscsi_abort(struct scsi_cmnd
> pvscsi_abort_cmd(adapter, ctx);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->hw_lock, flags);
> /* Wait for 2 secs for the completion. */
> - wait_for_completion_timeout(&abort_cmp, msecs_to_jiffies(2000));
> + done = wait_for_completion_timeout(&abort_cmp, msecs_to_jiffies(2000));
> spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->hw_lock, flags);
>
> - if (!completion_done(&abort_cmp)) {
> + if (!done) {
> /*
> * Failed to abort the command, unmark the fact that it
> * was requested to be aborted.
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Looks correct to me.
Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
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