This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mmc: block: don't use CMD23 with very old MMC cards 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: mmc-block-don-t-use-cmd23-with-very-old-mmc-cards.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 0ed50abb2d8fc81570b53af25621dad560cd49b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Gl=C3=B6ckner?= <dg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:17:30 +0200 Subject: mmc: block: don't use CMD23 with very old MMC cards MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Daniel Glöckner <dg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0ed50abb2d8fc81570b53af25621dad560cd49b3 upstream. CMD23 aka SET_BLOCK_COUNT was introduced with MMC v3.1. Older versions of the specification allowed to terminate multi-block transfers only with CMD12. The patch fixes the following problem: mmc0: new MMC card at address 0001 mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 SDMB-16 15.3 MiB mmcblk0: timed out sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, card status 0x400900 ... blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on dev mmcblk0, logical block 0, async page read mmcblk0: unable to read partition table Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c @@ -2279,7 +2279,8 @@ static struct mmc_blk_data *mmc_blk_allo set_capacity(md->disk, size); if (mmc_host_cmd23(card->host)) { - if (mmc_card_mmc(card) || + if ((mmc_card_mmc(card) && + card->csd.mmca_vsn >= CSD_SPEC_VER_3) || (mmc_card_sd(card) && card->scr.cmds & SD_SCR_CMD23_SUPPORT)) md->flags |= MMC_BLK_CMD23; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mmc-block-don-t-use-cmd23-with-very-old-mmc-cards.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