While a scsi device hw error occured, device's status maybe setting to SDEV_OFFLINE, So at scsi_dispatch_cmd function, we should checking if device have offline, if yes, do nothing and just return error to user directly. Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <lkmaillist@xxxxxxxxx> -- --- linux-2.6.21-rc2/drivers/scsi/scsi.c.orig 2007-03-08 16:50:14.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc2/drivers/scsi/scsi.c 2007-03-08 16:52:45.000000000 +0800 @@ -486,10 +486,12 @@ int rtn = 0; /* check if the device is still usable */ - if (unlikely(cmd->device->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL)) { - /* in SDEV_DEL we error all commands. DID_NO_CONNECT - * returns an immediate error upwards, and signals - * that the device is no longer present */ + if (unlikely(cmd->device->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL || + cmd->device->sdev_state == SDEV_OFFLINE)) { + /* in SDEV_DEL or SDEV_OFFLINE we error all commands. + * DID_NO_CONNECT returns an immediate error upwards, + * and signals that the device is no longer present + */ cmd->result = DID_NO_CONNECT << 16; atomic_inc(&cmd->device->iorequest_cnt); __scsi_done(cmd); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html