This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: core: Do not retry I/Os during depopulation
to the 6.6-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-core-do-not-retry-i-os-during-depopulation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2c343401e457db93757d4d8fa2faede8344026ec
Author: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 31 10:44:07 2025 -0800
scsi: core: Do not retry I/Os during depopulation
[ Upstream commit 9ff7c383b8ac0c482a1da7989f703406d78445c6 ]
Fail I/Os instead of retry to prevent user space processes from being
blocked on the I/O completion for several minutes.
Retrying I/Os during "depopulation in progress" or "depopulation restore in
progress" results in a continuous retry loop until the depopulation
completes or until the I/O retry loop is aborted due to a timeout by the
scsi_cmd_runtime_exceeced().
Depopulation is slow and can take 24+ hours to complete on 20+ TB HDDs.
Most I/Os in the depopulation retry loop end up taking several minutes
before returning the failure to user space.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.18.x: 2bbeb8d scsi: core: Handle depopulation and restoration in progress
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.18.x
Fixes: e37c7d9a0341 ("scsi: core: sanitize++ in progress")
Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250131184408.859579-1-ipylypiv@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 2f54e1a853099..f026377f1cf1c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -774,13 +774,18 @@ static void scsi_io_completion_action(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, int result)
case 0x1a: /* start stop unit in progress */
case 0x1b: /* sanitize in progress */
case 0x1d: /* configuration in progress */
- case 0x24: /* depopulation in progress */
- case 0x25: /* depopulation restore in progress */
action = ACTION_DELAYED_RETRY;
break;
case 0x0a: /* ALUA state transition */
action = ACTION_DELAYED_REPREP;
break;
+ /*
+ * Depopulation might take many hours,
+ * thus it is not worthwhile to retry.
+ */
+ case 0x24: /* depopulation in progress */
+ case 0x25: /* depopulation restore in progress */
+ fallthrough;
default:
action = ACTION_FAIL;
break;
