When two processes submit WRTIE SAME bio simultaneously and first IO return failed because of INVALID FIELD IN CDB, and then second IO can enter into an infinite loop. The problem can be described as follows: process 1 process 2 submit_bio(REQ_WRITE_SAME) and wait io completion begin submit_bio(REQ_WRITE_SAME) -> blk_queue_bio() -> dm_request_fn() -> map_request() -> scsi_request_fn() -> blk_peek_request() -> scsi_prep_fn() In the moment, IO return and sense_key with illegal_request, sense_code with 0x24(INVALID FIELD IN CDB). In this way it will set no_write_same = 1 in sd_done() and disable write same In sd_setup_write_same_cmnd() when find (no_write_same == 1) will return BLKPREP_KILL, and then in blk_peek_request() set error to EIO. However, in multipath_end_io() when find error is EIO it will fail path and retry even if device doesn't support WRITE SAME. In this situation, when process of multipathd reinstate path by using test_unit_ready periodically, it will cause second WRITE SAME IO enters into an infinite loop and loop never terminates. In do_end_io(), when finding device doesn't support WRITE SAME and request is WRITE SAME, return EOPNOTSUPP to applications. Signed-off-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: xuejiufei <xuejiufei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c index cfa29f5..ad1602a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -1269,6 +1269,11 @@ static int do_end_io(struct multipath *m, struct request *clone, if (noretry_error(error)) return error; + /* do not retry in case of WRITE SAME not supporting */ + if ((clone->cmd_flags & REQ_WRITE_SAME) && + !clone->q->limits.max_write_same_sectors) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + if (mpio->pgpath) fail_path(mpio->pgpath); -- 1.8.4.3 -- 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