On 24/03/2015 11:16, Fam Zheng wrote: > If issued right after link down, "blockdev --rereadpt" will be stuck for a > while and then return normally. Although the underlying capacity and partition > table are not correctly updated. And it means that userspace can't detect the > error at all. > > Fix this by propargating the error of "read capacity" command through the > stack, so that the ioctl could fail with -EIO. > > Fam Zheng (3): > block: Return error in rescan_partitions if revalidating disk failed > sd: Return error in sd_revalidate_disk if read capacity failed > sd: Return -EIO if read capacity failed > > block/partition-generic.c | 6 +++--- > drivers/scsi/sd.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Though patch 3 could be seen as a change in userspace ABI, so I'm less sure about it. Paolo -- 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
