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Re: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version

From "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version
Date 2017-03-08 04:10 +0100
Message-ID <tiA9c-le-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <tirpg-2s0-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization Oracle Corporation

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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> writes:

Stephen,

Stephen> Hyper-V host emulation of SCSI for virtual DVD device reports
Stephen> SCSI version 0 (UNKNOWN) but is still capable of supporting
Stephen> REPORTLUN.

Stephen> Without this patch, a GEN2 Linux guest on Hyper-V will not boot
Stephen> 4.11 successfully with virtual DVD ROM device. What happens is
Stephen> that the SCSI scan process falls back to doing sequential
Stephen> probing by INQUIRY.  But the storvsc driver has a previous
Stephen> workaround that masks/blocks all errors reports from INQUIRY
Stephen> (or MODE_SENSE) commands.  This workaround causes the scan to
Stephen> then populate a full set of bogus LUN's on the target and then
Stephen> sends kernel spinning off into a death spiral doing block reads
Stephen> on the non-existent LUNs.

Stephen> By setting the correct blacklist flags, the target with the DVD
Stephen> device is scanned with REPORTLUN and that works correctly.

Applied to 4.11/scsi-fixes. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> - 2017-03-07 18:50 +0100
  RE: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-07 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-03-08 01:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-03-08 04:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] storvsc: workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2017-03-08 11:40 +0100

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