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Patch "storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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

storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed

to the 3.14-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:
storvsc-set-the-srb-flags-correctly-when-no-data-transfer-is-needed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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

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From dc45708ca9988656d706940df5fd102672c5de92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:03:02 -0700
Subject: storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed

From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>

commit dc45708ca9988656d706940df5fd102672c5de92 upstream.

Set the SRB flags correctly when there is no data transfer. Without this change some IHV drivers will fail valid commands such as TEST_UNIT_READY.

---
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c +1 -2
@@ -1625,8 +1625,7 @@ static int storvsc_queuecommand(struct S
 		break;
 	default:
 		vm_srb->data_in = UNKNOWN_TYPE;
-		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |= (SRB_FLAGS_DATA_IN |
-						     SRB_FLAGS_DATA_OUT);
+		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |= SRB_FLAGS_NO_DATA_TRANSFER;
 		break;
 	}
 

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

queue-3.14/storvsc-set-the-srb-flags-correctly-when-no-data-transfer-is-needed.patch