Re: [PATCH RESEND] scsi: return correct blkprep status code in case scsi_init_io() fails.

From: Johannes Thumshirn
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 02:54:21 EST


On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 06:43:22PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 09:46 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > When instrumenting the SCSI layer to run into the
> > !blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(rq) case the following warning emitted from the
> > block layer:
> >
> > blk_peek_request: bad return=-22
> >
> > This happens because since commit fd3fc0b4d730 ('scsi: don't BUG_ON()
> > empty DMA transfers') we return the wrong error value from iscsi_prep_fn()
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> There is no iscsi_prep_fn() in the kernel tree. Did you perhaps mean
> scsi_prep_fn()?

*doh* Yup, you're right.

>
> > back to the block layer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: fd3fc0b4d730 scsi: don't BUG_ON() empty DMA transfers
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Commit fd3fc0b4d730 has a "Cc: stable" tag. I assume that that means that
> this patch also needs that tag?

Probably yes. I'll include both "fixes" in my resend.

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