This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Check for negative result value to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-scsi_dh_alua-check-for-negative-result-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0d95b2aedea4d3870d418f6dc25e8d4689cb752d Author: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 27 10:30:11 2021 +0200 scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Check for negative result value [ Upstream commit 7e26e3ea028740f934477ec01ba586ab033c35aa ] scsi_execute() will now return a negative error if there was an error prior to command submission; evaluate that instead if checking for DRIVER_ERROR. [mkp: build fix] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210427083046.31620-6-hare@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c index efd2b4312528..41e8c9e68878 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c @@ -562,12 +562,12 @@ static int alua_rtpg(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct alua_port_group *pg) kfree(buff); return SCSI_DH_OK; } - if (!scsi_sense_valid(&sense_hdr)) { + if (retval < 0 || !scsi_sense_valid(&sense_hdr)) { sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev, "%s: rtpg failed, result %d\n", ALUA_DH_NAME, retval); kfree(buff); - if (driver_byte(retval) == DRIVER_ERROR) + if (retval < 0) return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY; return SCSI_DH_IO; } @@ -789,11 +789,11 @@ static unsigned alua_stpg(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct alua_port_group *pg) retval = submit_stpg(sdev, pg->group_id, &sense_hdr); if (retval) { - if (!scsi_sense_valid(&sense_hdr)) { + if (retval < 0 || !scsi_sense_valid(&sense_hdr)) { sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev, "%s: stpg failed, result %d", ALUA_DH_NAME, retval); - if (driver_byte(retval) == DRIVER_ERROR) + if (retval < 0) return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY; } else { sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev, "%s: stpg failed\n",