This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures to the 3.11-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: libata-make-ata_eh_qc_retry-bump-scmd-allowed-on-bogus-failures.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:17:49 -0700 Subject: libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures From: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 upstream. libata EH decrements scmd->retries when the command failed for reasons unrelated to the command itself so that, for example, commands aborted due to suspend / resume cycle don't get penalized; however, decrementing scmd->retries isn't enough for ATA passthrough commands. Without this fix, ATA passthrough commands are not resend to the drive, and no error is signalled to the caller because: - allowed retry count is 1 - ata_eh_qc_complete fill the sense data, so result is valid - sense data is filled with untouched ATA registers. Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c @@ -1322,14 +1322,14 @@ void ata_eh_qc_complete(struct ata_queue * should be retried. To be used from EH. * * SCSI midlayer limits the number of retries to scmd->allowed. - * scmd->retries is decremented for commands which get retried + * scmd->allowed is incremented for commands which get retried * due to unrelated failures (qc->err_mask is zero). */ void ata_eh_qc_retry(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) { struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = qc->scsicmd; - if (!qc->err_mask && scmd->retries) - scmd->retries--; + if (!qc->err_mask) + scmd->allowed++; __ata_eh_qc_complete(qc); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/libata-make-ata_eh_qc_retry-bump-scmd-allowed-on-bogus-failures.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