From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@broadcom.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
PDL-MPT-FUSIONLINUX <MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:11:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161117071145.GA14526@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479345308-27261-1-git-send-email-andrey2805@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:15:08PM -0500, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> Problem:
> This is a work around for a bug with LSI Fusion MPT SAS2 when
> pefroming secure erase. Due to the very long time the operation
> takes commands issued during the erase will time out and will trigger
> execution of abort hook. Even though the abort hook is called for
> the specific command which timed out this leads to entire device halt
> (scsi_state terminated) and premature termination of the secured erase.
>
> Fix:
> Set device state to busy while erase in progress to reject any incoming
> commands until the erase is done. The device is blocked any way during
> this time and cannot execute any other command.
> More data and logs can be found here -
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ocOHYHbbS1Q3VMdkkzeWFkTjg/view
>
> P.S
> This is a backport from the same fix for mpt3sas driver intended
> for pre-4.4 stable trees.
What is "the same fix"? What is the git commit id in Linus's tree for
this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-17 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CAK=zhgqeRBcMHgvmeQSgRmpC+JBx8vAYoy3Jr8jh6VkV02UFSg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-10 13:42 ` [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination (v3) Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-11-10 13:54 ` Greg KH
2016-11-10 14:35 ` [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination (v4) Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-11-12 15:29 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-11-12 16:36 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-11-14 23:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-11-17 1:15 ` [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-11-17 7:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
[not found] ` <CAK=zhgpUo-t=xBm93NmBf6q-VD01C2s7mqFOy-C7Vo=WABGvSw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-04-23 18:28 ` [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination (v4) Igor Rybak
2018-04-24 7:25 ` Greg KH
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