Hi all,
currently the tape driver doesn't believe in ENOMEDIUM. Even if the
sense code from TUR indicates that no tape is present the command will
be retried; maybe the user is fast enough to slip a medium in in the
meantime ...
And even if not, it will return 'EIO' in any case.
This patch fixes the ENOMEDIUM handling: TUR will _not_ be retried if no
medium is present and the correct error number ENOMEDIUM will be set on
exit.
Please apply.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@xxxxxxx
SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries
Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688
90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de
st: Fix no medium handling
Currently the 'st' driver doesn't believe in -ENOMEDIUM.
Whenever the sense code indicates 'No tape' we might as well
return that status instead of retrying for ages.
And even then we really should return that error code to userland.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index 7f669b6..b77fd61 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -877,6 +877,12 @@ static int test_ready(struct scsi_tape *
}
if (scode == NOT_READY) {
+ if ((STp->device)->scsi_level >= SCSI_2 &&
+ cmdstatp->sense_hdr.asc == 0x3a) {
+ /* Early exit if there is no tape */
+ retval = CHKRES_NO_TAPE;
+ break;
+ }
if (waits < max_wait) {
if (msleep_interruptible(1000)) {
retval = (-EINTR);
@@ -885,14 +891,9 @@ static int test_ready(struct scsi_tape *
waits++;
continue;
}
- else {
- if ((STp->device)->scsi_level >= SCSI_2 &&
- cmdstatp->sense_hdr.asc == 0x3a) /* Check ASC */
- retval = CHKRES_NO_TAPE;
- else
- retval = CHKRES_NOT_READY;
- break;
- }
+ /* Accept we won't be getting anywhere */
+ retval = CHKRES_NOT_READY;
+ break;
}
}
@@ -1177,7 +1178,10 @@ static int st_open(struct inode *inode,
goto err_out;
if ((filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) == 0 &&
retval != CHKRES_READY) {
- retval = (-EIO);
+ if (STp->ready == ST_NO_TAPE)
+ retval = (-ENOMEDIUM);
+ else
+ retval = (-EIO);
goto err_out;
}
return 0;
