[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jun 17 21:27:42 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt22.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 760c10851660e9f0e0b7ba4d0181e543f3938823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:03:02 -0700
Subject: storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed

commit dc45708ca9988656d706940df5fd102672c5de92 upstream.

Set the SRB flags correctly when there is no data transfer.  Without this
change some IHV drivers will fail valid commands such as TEST_UNIT_READY.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Odin.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
index 97892f2..3bb6646 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -1625,8 +1625,7 @@ static int storvsc_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
 		break;
 	default:
 		vm_srb->data_in = UNKNOWN_TYPE;
-		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |= (SRB_FLAGS_DATA_IN |
-						     SRB_FLAGS_DATA_OUT);
+		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |= SRB_FLAGS_NO_DATA_TRANSFER;
 		break;
 	}

--
1.9.1





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