When ata device IDENTIFY failed, the ata device status is ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN. The libata reported like: [113518.620433] ata5.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) [113518.653646] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) But libsas verifies the device status by ata_dev_disabled(), which skipped ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN. This will make libsas think the ata device probing succeed the device cannot be actually brought up. And even the new bcast of this device will be considered as flutter and will not probe this device again. Change ata_dev_disabled() to !ata_dev_enabled() so that libsas can deal with this if the ata device probe failed. New bcasts can let us try to probe the device again and bring it up if it is fine to IDENTIFY. Tested-by: Zhou Yupeng <zhouyupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> CC: Ewan Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> CC: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c index 64a958a99f6a..4f6cdf53e913 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ void sas_probe_sata(struct asd_sas_port *port) /* if libata could not bring the link up, don't surface * the device */ - if (ata_dev_disabled(sas_to_ata_dev(dev))) + if (!ata_dev_enabled(sas_to_ata_dev(dev))) sas_fail_probe(dev, __func__, -ENODEV); } -- 2.14.4