Permanent target failures are non-retryable and should be classified as TARGET_ERROR; otherwise dm-multipath will retry an IO request that will always fail at the target. A SCSI command that fails with ILLEGAL_REQUEST sense and Additional sense 0x20, 0x21, 0x24 or 0x26 represents a permanent TARGET_ERROR. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) v2: revised patch header to not be hyper-focused on WRITE SAME failures diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c index dc6131e..33d3a50 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c @@ -366,6 +366,14 @@ static int scsi_check_sense(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd) return TARGET_ERROR; case ILLEGAL_REQUEST: + if (sshdr.asc == 0x20 || /* Invalid command operation code */ + sshdr.asc == 0x21 || /* Logical block address out of range */ + sshdr.asc == 0x24 || /* Invalid field in cdb */ + sshdr.asc == 0x26) { /* Parameter value invalid */ + return TARGET_ERROR; + } + return SUCCESS; + default: return SUCCESS; } -- 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