On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Steven Haber wrote: > Both patches work fine -- zero uncommitted writes over several hundred > power cycles. Thanks for the testing. Below is James' patch with a trivial comment fix and a proper changelog. James, can I get your signoff for this one? I'll throw it into the core-for-3.16 tree then. --- >From 92510736caa3b14a964af981ba288950042e79e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 19:17:34 +0200 Subject: scsi: handle flush errors properly Flush commands don't transfer data and thus need to be special cased in the I/O completion handler so that we can propagate errors to the block layer and filesystem. Reported-by: Steven Haber <steven@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Steven Haber <steven@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index f7e3163..143d0e2 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -733,6 +733,14 @@ void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, unsigned int good_bytes) scsi_next_command(cmd); return; } + } else if (blk_rq_bytes(req) == 0 && result && !sense_deferred) { + /* + * Certain non BLOCK_PC requests are commands that don't + * actually transfer anything (FLUSH), so cannot use + * good_bytes == 0 as the signal for an error. This sets the + * error explicitly for the problem case. + */ + error = __scsi_error_from_host_byte(cmd, result); } /* no bidi support for !REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC yet */ -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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