Re: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to unsent scsicommands after kexec reboot

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 12:00:26 EST


On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:31:19 -0400 Neil Horman wrote:

> Hey -
> cciss hardware currently can continue to send responses to scsi commands
> after the host system has undergone a kexec reboot. The way the drier is
> currently written, reception of these commands results in a BUG halt, since it
> can't match the response to any issued command since the boot. This patch
> corrects that by using the kexec reset_devices command line paramter to force
> ignore any commands that it cant correlate.
>
> Regards
> Neil
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> cciss.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> index 5acc6c4..ec1c1d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> @@ -2131,6 +2131,14 @@ static int add_sendcmd_reject(__u8 cmd, int ctlr, unsigned long complete)
> ctlr, complete);
> /* not much we can do. */
> #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
> + /* We might get notification of completion of commands
> + * which we never issued in this kernel if this boot is
> + * taking place after previous kernel's crash. Simply
> + * ignore the commands in this case.
> + */
> + if (reset_devices)
> + return 0;
> +
> return 1;
> }

But this patch applies only to SCSI tape devices, not to
disk devices?

---
~Randy
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