This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures

to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     libata-make-ata_eh_qc_retry-bump-scmd-allowed-on-bogus-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gwendal Grignou <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:17:49 -0700
Subject: libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures

From: Gwendal Grignou <[email protected]>

commit f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 upstream.

libata EH decrements scmd->retries when the command failed for reasons
unrelated to the command itself so that, for example, commands aborted
due to suspend / resume cycle don't get penalized; however,
decrementing scmd->retries isn't enough for ATA passthrough commands.

Without this fix, ATA passthrough commands are not resend to the
drive, and no error is signalled to the caller because:

- allowed retry count is 1
- ata_eh_qc_complete fill the sense data, so result is valid
- sense data is filled with untouched ATA registers.

Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -1322,14 +1322,14 @@ void ata_eh_qc_complete(struct ata_queue
  *     should be retried.  To be used from EH.
  *
  *     SCSI midlayer limits the number of retries to scmd->allowed.
- *     scmd->retries is decremented for commands which get retried
+ *     scmd->allowed is incremented for commands which get retried
  *     due to unrelated failures (qc->err_mask is zero).
  */
 void ata_eh_qc_retry(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
 {
        struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = qc->scsicmd;
-       if (!qc->err_mask && scmd->retries)
-               scmd->retries--;
+       if (!qc->err_mask)
+               scmd->allowed++;
        __ata_eh_qc_complete(qc);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.11/libata-make-ata_eh_qc_retry-bump-scmd-allowed-on-bogus-failures.patch
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