From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: nab@linux-iscsi.org, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
martin.petersen@oracle.com, Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
"Bryant G. Ly" <bgly@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 18:55:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109175544.GB6750@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b74ee38-4490-79df-8311-4d7349749cbf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:23:23AM -0600, Bryant G. Ly wrote:
> On 1/9/17 10:47 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:21:20AM -0600, Bryant G. Ly wrote:
> > > From: "Bryant G. Ly" <bgly@us.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > If srp_transfer_data fails within ibmvscsis_write_pending, then
> > > the most likely scenario is that the client timed out the op and
> > > removed the TCE mapping. Thus it will loop forever retrying the
> > > op that is pretty much guaranteed to fail forever. A better return
> > > code would be EIO instead of EAGAIN.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Reported-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Tested-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bgly@us.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > Why are you sending this to me?
> >
> > confused,
> >
> > greg k-h
> Sorry I meant to put --to target-devel@vger.kernel.org, and just --cc you.
Why even cc: me?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-09 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-09 16:21 [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code Bryant G. Ly
2017-01-09 16:47 ` Greg KH
2017-01-09 17:23 ` Bryant G. Ly
2017-01-09 17:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-01-10 17:36 ` Bart Van Assche
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