Without this drivers that don't clear the state themselves can see off effects. For example Hyper-V VMs using the storvsc driver will often hang during boot due to uncleared Test Unit Ready failures. Fixes: e9c787e6 ("scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since V1: - use a single memset as suggested by Bart drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 90f65c8f487a..1d87a809944d 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_device *dev, struct scsi_cmnd *cmd) /* zero out the cmd, except for the embedded scsi_request */ memset((char *)cmd + sizeof(cmd->req), 0, - sizeof(*cmd) - sizeof(cmd->req)); + sizeof(*cmd) - sizeof(cmd->req) + dev->host->hostt->cmd_size); cmd->device = dev; cmd->sense_buffer = buf; -- 2.11.0