Save / restore the retry counter in scsi_cmd in scsi_init_command. This allows us to go back through scsi_init_command for retries and not forget we are doing a retry. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1155,6 +1155,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic void *prot = cmd->prot_sdb; unsigned int unchecked_isa_dma = cmd->flags & SCMD_UNCHECKED_ISA_DMA; unsigned long jiffies_at_alloc = cmd->jiffies_at_alloc; + int retries = cmd->retries; /* zero out the cmd, except for the embedded scsi_request */ memset((char *)cmd + sizeof(cmd->req), 0, @@ -1166,6 +1167,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic cmd->flags = unchecked_isa_dma; INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&cmd->abort_work, scmd_eh_abort_handler); cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies_at_alloc; + cmd->retries = retries; scsi_add_cmd_to_list(cmd); }