When creating a device that is supposed to have a backing file but no path was provided. Treat this as creating a removable device without any media loaded. Set removable=1 and make sure online=0 to indicate this is a removable device and that all media access commands will fail with check-condition/not ready/medium not present. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> --- usr/target.c | 6 +++--- usr/tgtadm.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr/target.c b/usr/target.c index dd4b358..fad6801 100644 --- a/usr/target.c +++ b/usr/target.c @@ -586,9 +586,9 @@ int tgt_device_create(int tid, int dev_type, uint64_t lun, char *params, goto fail_lu_init; } - if (backing && !path && !lu->attrs.removable) { - ret = TGTADM_INVALID_REQUEST; - goto fail_bs_init; + if (backing && !path) { + lu->attrs.removable = 1; + lu->attrs.online = 0; } if (backing && path) { diff --git a/usr/tgtadm.c b/usr/tgtadm.c index 7dca0f8..26c82bc 100644 --- a/usr/tgtadm.c +++ b/usr/tgtadm.c @@ -779,7 +779,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) "allowed/supported\n", rc); exit(EINVAL); } - if (!path && dev_type != TYPE_MMC) { + if (!path && dev_type != TYPE_MMC + && dev_type != TYPE_DISK) { eprintf("'backing-store' option " "is necessary\n"); exit(EINVAL); -- 1.7.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html