Patch "scsi: Add QEMU CD-ROM to VPD Inquiry Blacklist" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

scsi: Add QEMU CD-ROM to VPD Inquiry Blacklist

to the 4.4-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:
scsi-add-qemu-cd-rom-to-vpd-inquiry-blacklist.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: "Ewan D. Milne" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 09:42:29 -0400
Subject: scsi: Add QEMU CD-ROM to VPD Inquiry Blacklist

From: Ewan D. Milne <[email protected]>

commit fbd83006e3e536fcb103228d2422ea63129ccb03 upstream.

Linux fails to boot as a guest with a QEMU CD-ROM:

[    4.439488] ata2.00: ATAPI: QEMU CD-ROM, 0.8.2, max UDMA/100
[    4.443649] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[    4.450267] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM      0.8. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    4.464317] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[    4.464319] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x5
[    4.464339] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:01/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 16640 in
[    4.464339]          Inquiry 12 01 00 00 ff 00res 48/20:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[    4.464341] ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[    4.465864] ata2: soft resetting link
[    4.625971] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[    4.628290] ata2: EH complete
[    4.646670] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[    4.646671] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x5
[    4.646683] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:01/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 16640 in
[    4.646683]          Inquiry 12 01 00 00 ff 00res 48/20:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[    4.646685] ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[    4.648193] ata2: soft resetting link

...

Fix this by suppressing VPD inquiry for this device.

---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static struct {
 	{"PIONEER", "CD-ROM DRM-624X", NULL, BLIST_FORCELUN | BLIST_SINGLELUN},
 	{"Promise", "VTrak E610f", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_NO_RSOC},
 	{"Promise", "", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN},
+	{"QEMU", "QEMU CD-ROM", NULL, BLIST_SKIP_VPD_PAGES},
 	{"QNAP", "iSCSI Storage", NULL, BLIST_MAX_1024},
 	{"SYNOLOGY", "iSCSI Storage", NULL, BLIST_MAX_1024},
 	{"QUANTUM", "XP34301", "1071", BLIST_NOTQ},

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

queue-4.4/scsi-add-qemu-cd-rom-to-vpd-inquiry-blacklist.patch