On 05/04/18 19:49, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Bart, > >> A recent change in the SCSI core caused certain request failures no >> longer to be reported to user space. Damien noticed this by sending a >> write request that is not aligned to the write pointer to an SMR drive >> from user space. Such non-aligned write requests are failed by the >> drive and such failures should be reported to user space. This patch >> series makes sure that all SCSI request failures are again reported to >> user space. This patch series also makes the SCSI core recognize >> status codes like CONDITION MET as not being an error. Please >> consider at least the first patch in this series for the rc stage of >> kernel v4.17. > > Looks good to me. > > Longer term I'd really like to see the command result integer > host/driver/msg/status stuff cleaned up. It's super arcane and the > associated naming schemes make it a very error-prone interface. >
I did start a series [1] for this but than got distracted by more urgent things. I can pick it up again I think. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jth/linux.git/log/?h=iscsi_DID_REQUEUE Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumsh...@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850
