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Subject: [Bug 111441] iscsi fails to attach to targets
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:01:46 +0000
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--- Comment #15 from nab ---
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 14:56 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:55 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> > On 01/30/2016 01:38 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 17:32 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> > >> On 01/29/2016 04:21 PM, Serguei Bezverkhi (sbezverk) wrote:
> > >>> HI Mike,
> > >>>
> > >>> I tried your patch and it is has eliminated first traceback but I still do not see my remote targets.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> That is sort of expected. Your target is not setup for ALUA properly. It
> > >> says it supports ALUA, but when scsi_dh_alua asks about the ports it is
> > >> reporting there are none. Ccing the people that made the patch that
> > >> added the issue and own the code.
> > >>
> > >> Hey Christoph and Hannes,
> > >>
> > >> The dh/alua changes that added this:
> > >>
> > >> error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
> > >> if (error) {
> > >> sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
> > >> "failed to add device handler: %d\n",
> > >> error);
> > >> return error;
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> to scsi_sysfs_add_sdev are adding a regression.
> > >>
> > >> 1. If that fails, then we forget to do device_del before doing the
> > >> return. My patch in this thread added that back, so we do not see the
> > >> sysfs oopses anymore. But.....
> > >>
> > >> 2. It looks like in older kernels, we would allow misconfigured targets
> > >> like this one to still setup devices. Do we want that old behavior back?
> > >> Should we just ignore the return value from scsi_dh_add_device above?
> > >> Note that in this case, it is LIO so it can be easily fixed on the
> > >> target side by just setting it up properly. I do not think other targets
> > >> would hit this type of issue.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Btw, what does misconfigured mean here wrt target ALUA..?
> >
> > [ 25.833195] sd 6:0:0:4: alua: supports implicit and explicit TPGS
> > [ 25.833360] sd 6:0:0:4: alua: No target port descriptors found
> > [ 25.833363] sd 6:0:0:4: alua: Attach failed (-22)
> > [ 25.833365] sd 6:0:0:4: failed to add device handler: -22
> >
>
> Strange, this hasn't changed in forever on the target side..
>
> > He has LIO configured to report it supports implicit/explicit ALUA, but
> > the ports do not seem to be configured.
> >
> > For the LIO config side, are his LUNs just not in a the default_lu_gp or
> > any other group?
>
> So every non-PSCSI backend device becomes part of default_lu_gp +
> default_tg_pt_gp and automatically shows up in EVPD=0x83, without user
> needing to do any additional configuration.
>
> Here's what the output looks like:
>
> root@haakon3:/usr/src/target-pending.git# sg_inq -Hi /dev/sdb
> VPD INQUIRY: Device Identification page
>
> Designation descriptor number 3, descriptor length: 8
> transport: Serial Attached SCSI Protocol (SPL-2)
> designator_type: Relative target port, code_set: Binary
> associated with the target port
> designator header(hex): 61 94 00 04
> designator:
> 00 00 00 00 02 ....
> Designation descriptor number 4, descriptor length: 8
> transport: Serial Attached SCSI Protocol (SPL-2)
> designator_type: Target port group, code_set: Binary
> associated with the target port
> designator header(hex): 61 95 00 04
> designator:
> 00 00 00 00 00 ....
> Designation descriptor number 5, descriptor length: 8
> designator_type: Logical unit group, code_set: Binary
> associated with the addressed logical unit
> designator header(hex): 01 06 00 04
> designator:
> 00 00 00 00 00 ....
>
>
> So AFAICT, the relative target port, target port group, and logical unit
> group being returned from target on v4.5-rc1 code looks correct.
>
> Serguei, can you confirm with 'sg_inq -Hi /dev/sdX' output on your side
> with the v3.10 based target..?
>
> AFAICT the parsing in scsi_vpd_tpg_id() from commit a8aa3978 looks
> correct too.
>
> Hannes, any ideas..?
Ping.
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