EMC Symmetrix is returning 'internal target error' for a variety of conditions, most of which will be transient. So we should always retry it, even with failfast set. Otherwise we'd get spurious path flaps with multipath. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c index 5086489..5722c2e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c @@ -497,6 +497,16 @@ int scsi_check_sense(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd) if (sshdr.asc == 0x10) /* DIF */ return SUCCESS; + if (!strncmp(scmd->device->vendor, "EMC", 3) && + !strncmp(scmd->device->model, "SYMMETRIX", 9) && + (sshdr.asc == 0x44) && (sshdr.ascq == 0x0)) { + /* + * EMC Symmetrix returns 'Internal target failure' + * for a variety of internal issues, all of which + * can be recovered by retry. + */ + return ADD_TO_MLQUEUE; + } return NEEDS_RETRY; case NOT_READY: case UNIT_ATTENTION: @@ -1846,6 +1856,9 @@ int scsi_decide_disposition(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd) rtn = scsi_check_sense(scmd); if (rtn == NEEDS_RETRY) goto maybe_retry; + else if (rtn == ADD_TO_MLQUEUE) + /* Always enforce a retry for ADD_TO_MLQUEUE */ + rtn = NEEDS_RETRY; /* if rtn == FAILED, we have no sense information; * returning FAILED will wake the error handler thread * to collect the sense and redo the decide -- 1.8.5.6