Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination.

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination.

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:12:49PM +0530, Suganath Prabu S 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.
> 
> P.S
> This is a backport from the same fix for mpt3sas driver intended
> for pre-4.4 stable trees.

What is the git commit id of the patch in Linus's tree that matches up
with this one?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:05:38PM +0530, Suganath Prabu Subramani wrote:
> Commit id and other details are given below:
> 
> commit 18f6084a989ba1b38702f9af37a2e4049a924be6
> Author: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>
> Date: � Thu Nov 10 09:35:27 2016 -0500
> 
> � � scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination
> 

For what?  I have no context here...

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Fix secure erase premature termination.

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:41:38AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:05:38PM +0530, Suganath Prabu Subramani wrote:
> > Commit id and other details are given below:
> > 
> > commit 18f6084a989ba1b38702f9af37a2e4049a924be6
> > Author: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>
> > Date: � Thu Nov 10 09:35:27 2016 -0500
> > 
> > � � scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination
> > 
> 
> For what?  I have no context here...

Hi, 

Let me chime in and give you some context. Once upon a time there have been
two LSI/Avago/Broadcom SAS HBA drivers called mpt2sas and mpt3sas. Luckily
they got merged and so we only have to fix bugs in one file instead all of 
it's copies. This was around commit c84b06a48c4d8ac8270624453132f3fa1a4a0f9d
which went in v4.4. This patch looks like the mpt2sas version of above fix for
stable kernels before the mpt{2,3}sas unification (a.k.a pre-4.4).

Hope that helps.

Byte,
	Johannes

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