This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
to the 3.4-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-don-t-attempt-to-send-extended-inquiry-command-if-skip_vpd_pages-is-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7562523e84ddc742fe1f9db8bd76b01acca89f6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:58:34 -0400
Subject: SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7562523e84ddc742fe1f9db8bd76b01acca89f6b upstream.
If a device has the skip_vpd_pages flag set we should simply fail the
scsi_get_vpd_page() call.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Stuart Foster <smf.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -1025,6 +1025,9 @@ int scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device
{
int i, result;
+ if (sdev->skip_vpd_pages)
+ goto fail;
+
/* Ask for all the pages supported by this device */
result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, 0, buf_len);
if (result)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/scsi-don-t-attempt-to-send-extended-inquiry-command-if-skip_vpd_pages-is-set.patch
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