From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"ohering@suse.com" <ohering@suse.com>,
"jbottomley@parallels.com" <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:17:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140710101713.GC1151@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <651b6b11c6d6415cb0046ce03b6b2c63@BY2PR03MB299.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:40:09PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:46:51PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > Correctly set SRB flags for all valid I/O directions. Some IHV drivers
> > > on the Windows host require this.
> >
> > What are IHV drivers?
>
> If the target is a SAN device, the host simply passes the request over to the native driver stack on the host. Some specific hardware (IHV - independent hadware vendor) drivers on Windows require that SRB flags be correctly set in all cases.
>
I'm fine with putting this in, but treating I/O request from guests as
trusted in a hypervisor doesn't seem like a good idea in general..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-09 0:46 [PATCH 0/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Bug fixes and improvements K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Change the limits to reflect the values on the host K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Filter commands based on the storage protocol version K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 20:02 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 3/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Fix a bug in handling VMBUS " K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 20:01 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Filter WRITE_SAME_16 K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 19:52 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-09 21:14 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 22:27 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-09 22:36 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 10:07 ` hch
2014-07-10 21:02 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 22:12 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-11 6:32 ` hch
2014-07-11 12:54 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-12 2:53 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-12 2:50 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-13 12:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-13 18:49 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-14 2:37 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-14 3:19 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-16 11:01 ` hch
2014-07-16 14:53 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-16 15:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-16 17:38 ` hch
2014-07-16 17:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-16 17:55 ` hch
2014-07-16 18:02 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-16 18:43 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-07-16 19:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-17 7:42 ` hch
2014-07-17 12:41 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-16 18:45 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-16 18:50 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-16 19:08 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-16 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2014-07-16 19:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Fix a bug in the handling of SRB status flags K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement an abort handler K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 18:51 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-10 22:26 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-11 9:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-11 9:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-11 14:49 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 10:33 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-12 16:16 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-12 16:35 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 18:40 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-07-10 22:22 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-10 10:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-11 21:03 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 0:46 ` [PATCH 8/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Correctly handle TEST_UNIT_READY failure K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 18:35 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 8:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Change the limits to reflect the values on the host Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-09 20:07 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09 23:39 ` KY Srinivasan
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