From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] virtio-blk: pass full status to the guest
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:56:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB13DF1.60400@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320236380-26180-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On 11/02/2011 07:19 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When SCSI passthrough is being used by the guest with virtio-blk, the
> guest is not able to detect disk failures. This is because the status
> field is expected by the guest driver to include also the msg_status,
> host_status and driver_status fields, but the device is only passing
> down the SCSI status.
>
> The patch fixes this, and also makes sure that the guest always sees a
> CHECK_CONDITION status when there is valid sense data.
> ---
Applied. Thanks.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Sorry for missing the -rc deadline, testing this requires
> Fibre Channel stuff so I needed someone to do it for me. :)
>
> hw/virtio-blk.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio-blk.c b/hw/virtio-blk.c
> index 179747a..8beaa20 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-blk.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-blk.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> #include "trace.h"
> #include "blockdev.h"
> #include "virtio-blk.h"
> +#include "scsi-defs.h"
> #ifdef __linux__
> # include<scsi/sg.h>
> #endif
> @@ -231,7 +232,20 @@ static void virtio_blk_handle_scsi(VirtIOBlockReq *req)
> status = VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK;
> }
>
> - stl_p(&req->scsi->errors, hdr.status);
> + /*
> + * From SCSI-Generic-HOWTO: "Some lower level drivers (e.g. ide-scsi)
> + * clear the masked_status field [hence status gets cleared too, see
> + * block/scsi_ioctl.c] even when a CHECK_CONDITION or COMMAND_TERMINATED
> + * status has occurred. However they do set DRIVER_SENSE in driver_status
> + * field. Also a (sb_len_wr> 0) indicates there is a sense buffer.
> + */
> + if (hdr.status == 0&& hdr.sb_len_wr> 0) {
> + hdr.status = CHECK_CONDITION;
> + }
> +
> + stl_p(&req->scsi->errors,
> + hdr.status | (hdr.msg_status<< 8) |
> + (hdr.host_status<< 16) | (hdr.driver_status<< 24));
> stl_p(&req->scsi->residual, hdr.resid);
> stl_p(&req->scsi->sense_len, hdr.sb_len_wr);
> stl_p(&req->scsi->data_len, hdr.dxfer_len);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-02 12:19 [PATCH 1.0] virtio-blk: pass full status to the guest Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-02 12:56 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-11-02 13:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-11-02 13:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
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