On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 02:09:54PM +0530, Balaji Selvanathan wrote:
> From: Aswin Murugan <[email protected]>
>
> Enable the Force Unit Access (FUA) bit in SCSI WRITE10 commands to
> ensure writes bypass the device's volatile cache and go directly to
> non-volatile storage. This provides write-through behavior that prevents
> data loss during board resets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aswin Murugan <[email protected]>

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Reviewed-by: Varadarajan Narayanan <[email protected]>

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Reverted "scsi: sync cache on write" commit and then set the FUA bit
>
>  drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> index 2e99f68cc5a..153b4841add 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static void scsi_setup_write_ext(struct scsi_cmd *pccb, 
> lbaint_t start,
>                                lbaint_t blocks)
>  {
>       pccb->cmd[0] = SCSI_WRITE10;
> -     pccb->cmd[1] = 0;
> +     pccb->cmd[1] = 0x08; /* Set FUA bit to bypass write cache */
>       pccb->cmd[2] = (unsigned char)(start >> 24) & 0xff;
>       pccb->cmd[3] = (unsigned char)(start >> 16) & 0xff;
>       pccb->cmd[4] = (unsigned char)(start >> 8) & 0xff;
> --
> 2.34.1
>

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