New: USB drive no longer detected as removable storage media

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60711

            Bug ID: 60711
           Summary: USB drive no longer detected as removable storage
                    media
           Product: IO/Storage
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.10.3
          Hardware: i386
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: low
          Priority: P1
         Component: SCSI
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
        Regression: No

Created attachment 107132
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commit 98dcc2946adbe4349ef1ef9b99873b912831edd4
Author: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jun 6 22:15:55 2013 -0400
SCSI: sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics
commit 66c28f97120e8a621afd5aa7a31c4b85c547d33d upstream.

introduced with kernel patch-3.10.3 effectively breaks detection of some USB drives as removable storage media. The concerned drives are recognized by the SCSI layer, but are no longer available as removable storage (see attachment).

Commenting out the following if-clause from sd.c (function sd_read_write_same)

        if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE))
            sdev->no_write_same = 1;

makes anything working as expected.

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         Regression|No                          |Yes

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