Patch "scsi: arcmsr: Send SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command to firmware" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: arcmsr: Send SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command to firmware

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-arcmsr-send-synchronize_cache-command-to-firmware.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2bf7dc8443e113844d078fd6541b7f4aa544f92f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ching Huang <ching2048@areca.com.tw>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:50:26 +0800
Subject: scsi: arcmsr: Send SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command to firmware

From: Ching Huang <ching2048@areca.com.tw>

commit 2bf7dc8443e113844d078fd6541b7f4aa544f92f upstream.

The arcmsr driver failed to pass SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to controller
firmware. Depending on how drive caches are handled internally by
controller firmware this could potentially lead to data integrity
problems.

Ensure that cache flushes are passed to the controller.

[mkp: applied by hand and removed unused vars]

Signed-off-by: Ching Huang <ching2048@areca.com.tw>
Reported-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
@@ -2545,18 +2545,9 @@ static int arcmsr_queue_command_lck(stru
 	struct AdapterControlBlock *acb = (struct AdapterControlBlock *) host->hostdata;
 	struct CommandControlBlock *ccb;
 	int target = cmd->device->id;
-	int lun = cmd->device->lun;
-	uint8_t scsicmd = cmd->cmnd[0];
 	cmd->scsi_done = done;
 	cmd->host_scribble = NULL;
 	cmd->result = 0;
-	if ((scsicmd == SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE) ||(scsicmd == SEND_DIAGNOSTIC)){
-		if(acb->devstate[target][lun] == ARECA_RAID_GONE) {
-    			cmd->result = (DID_NO_CONNECT << 16);
-		}
-		cmd->scsi_done(cmd);
-		return 0;
-	}
 	if (target == 16) {
 		/* virtual device for iop message transfer */
 		arcmsr_handle_virtual_command(acb, cmd);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ching2048@areca.com.tw are

queue-4.4/scsi-arcmsr-send-synchronize_cache-command-to-firmware.patch