From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40236 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753416AbdARKyh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:54:37 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Steven Royer , "Bryant G. Ly" , Bart Van Assche Subject: [PATCH 4.9 067/120] ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:46:25 +0100 Message-Id: <20170118104650.841002009@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170118104648.120216880@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170118104648.120216880@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Bryant G. Ly commit 7c9d8d0c41b3e24473ac7648a7fc2d644ccf08ff upstream. 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. Reported-by: Steven Royer Tested-by: Steven Royer Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c @@ -3702,7 +3702,7 @@ static int ibmvscsis_write_pending(struc 1, 1); if (rc) { pr_err("srp_transfer_data() failed: %d\n", rc); - return -EAGAIN; + return -EIO; } /* * We now tell TCM to add this WRITE CDB directly into the TCM storage