Patch "scsi: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is present" 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: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is present

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-storvsc-properly-handle-srb_error-when-sense-message-is-present.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: Long Li <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:46:02 -0800
Subject: scsi: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is present

From: Long Li <[email protected]>

commit bba5dc332ec2d3a685cb4dae668c793f6a3713a3 upstream.

When sense message is present on error, we should pass along to the upper layer to decide how to deal with the error.
This patch fixes connectivity issues with Fiber Channel devices.

---
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

@@ -866,6 +866,13 @@ static void storvsc_handle_error(struct
 	switch (SRB_STATUS(vm_srb->srb_status)) {
 	case SRB_STATUS_ERROR:
 		/*
+		 * Let upper layer deal with error when
+		 * sense message is present.
+		 */
+
+		if (vm_srb->srb_status & SRB_STATUS_AUTOSENSE_VALID)
+			break;
+		/*
 		 * If there is an error; offline the device since all
 		 * error recovery strategies would have already been
 		 * deployed on the host side. However, if the command

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

queue-4.4/scsi-storvsc-use-tagged-srb-requests-if-supported-by-the-device.patch queue-4.4/scsi-storvsc-properly-set-residual-data-length-on-errors.patch queue-4.4/scsi-storvsc-properly-handle-srb_error-when-sense-message-is-present.patch