This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: add Synology to 1024 sector blacklist to the 4.4-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-add-synology-to-1024-sector-blacklist.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9055082fb100cc66e20c048251d05159f5f2cfba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:34:05 -0600 Subject: scsi: add Synology to 1024 sector blacklist From: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9055082fb100cc66e20c048251d05159f5f2cfba upstream. Another iscsi target that cannot handle large IOs, but does not tell us a limit. The Synology iSCSI targets report: Block limits VPD page (SBC): Write same no zero (WSNZ): 0 Maximum compare and write length: 0 blocks Optimal transfer length granularity: 0 blocks Maximum transfer length: 0 blocks Optimal transfer length: 0 blocks Maximum prefetch length: 0 blocks Maximum unmap LBA count: 0 Maximum unmap block descriptor count: 0 Optimal unmap granularity: 0 Unmap granularity alignment valid: 0 Unmap granularity alignment: 0 Maximum write same length: 0x0 blocks and the size of the command it can handle seems to depend on how much memory it can allocate at the time. This results in IO errors when handling large IOs. This patch just has us use the old 1024 default sectors for this target by adding it to the scsi blacklist. We do not have good contacs with this vendors, so I have not been able to try and fix on their side. I have posted this a long while back, but it was not merged. This version just fixes it up for merge/patch failures in the original version. Reported-by: Ancoron Luciferis <ancoron.luciferis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Michael Meyers <steltek@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c @@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static struct { {"Promise", "VTrak E610f", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_NO_RSOC}, {"Promise", "", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN}, {"QNAP", "iSCSI Storage", NULL, BLIST_MAX_1024}, + {"SYNOLOGY", "iSCSI Storage", NULL, BLIST_MAX_1024}, {"QUANTUM", "XP34301", "1071", BLIST_NOTQ}, {"REGAL", "CDC-4X", NULL, BLIST_MAX5LUN | BLIST_SINGLELUN}, {"SanDisk", "ImageMate CF-SD1", NULL, BLIST_FORCELUN}, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/scsi-add-synology-to-1024-sector-blacklist.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html