scsi disk: disk offline prematurely from medium access timeout
PATCH 1/1 scsi disk: disk offline prematurely from medium access timeout
There is an error with the medium access timeout feature of the sd driver. The sdkp->medium_access_timed_out value is set to zero in sd_done() in the wrong place. It is set to zero only if a command returns sense data. If an I/O command times out, error handling succeeds, and the I/O command completes, the value won't be reset if nothing generates a sense response. Then, another timeout (no matter how far in the future) can increment it again, causing the device to be prematurely set offline.
The resetting of sdkp->medium_access_timed_out should occur before the check for sense data.
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To reproduce using scsi_debug, use SCSI_DEBUG_OPT_TIMEOUT or SCSI_DEBUG_OPT_MAC_TIMEOUT to force an I/O command to timeout. Then, remove the opt value so the I/O will succeed on retry. Perform more I/O as desired. Finally, repeat the process to make a new I/O command time out. Without the patch, the device will be marked offline even though many I/O commands have succeeded between the 2 instances of timed out commands.
drivers/scsi/sd.c +2 -2
@@ -1669,12 +1669,12 @@ static int sd_done(struct scsi_cmnd *SCpnt) sshdr.ascq)); }#endif + sdkp->medium_access_timed_out =0 ; +if (driver_byte (result) !=DRIVER_SENSE && (!sense_valid || sense_deferred)) goto out; - sdkp->medium_access_timed_out =0 ; -switch (sshdr.sense_key) {case HARDWARE_ERROR :case MEDIUM_ERROR :