This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: add Intel Multi-Flex to scsi scan blacklist to the 3.17-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-intel-multi-flex-to-scsi-scan-blacklist.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1899045510ff109980d9cc34e330fd8ca3631871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20S=C3=BCnkenberg?= <christian.suenkenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:23:32 +0100 Subject: scsi: add Intel Multi-Flex to scsi scan blacklist MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20S=C3=BCnkenberg?= commit 1899045510ff109980d9cc34e330fd8ca3631871 upstream. Intel Multi-Flex LUNs choke on REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES resulting in sd_mod hanging for several minutes on startup. The issue was introduced with WRITE SAME discovery heuristics. Fixes: 5db44863b6eb ("[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME") Signed-off-by: Christian Sünkenberg <christian.suenkenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> 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 @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ static struct { {"IOMEGA", "Io20S *F", NULL, BLIST_KEY}, {"INSITE", "Floptical F*8I", NULL, BLIST_KEY}, {"INSITE", "I325VM", NULL, BLIST_KEY}, + {"Intel", "Multi-Flex", NULL, BLIST_NO_RSOC}, {"iRiver", "iFP Mass Driver", NULL, BLIST_NOT_LOCKABLE | BLIST_INQUIRY_36}, {"LASOUND", "CDX7405", "3.10", BLIST_MAX5LUN | BLIST_SINGLELUN}, {"MATSHITA", "PD-1", NULL, BLIST_FORCELUN | BLIST_SINGLELUN}, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christian.suenkenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/scsi-add-intel-multi-flex-to-scsi-scan-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