[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "[SCSI] sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    [SCSI] sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a8886b5eb971bcb456502a59a2785f5d889e7449 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert at itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:47:32 +0200
Subject: [SCSI] sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request

commit af73623f5f10eb3832c87a169b28f7df040a875b upstream.

Somehow older areca firmware versions have issues with
scsi_get_vpd_page() and a large buffer, the firmware
seems to crash and the scsi error-handler will start endless
recovery retries.
Limiting the buf-size to 64-bytes fixes this issue with older
firmware versions (<1.49 for my controller).

Fixes a regression with areca controllers and older firmware versions
introduced by commit: 66c28f97120e8a621afd5aa7a31c4b85c547d33d

Reported-by: Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>
Tested-by: Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert at itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index a873795..23e0673 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -2644,13 +2644,16 @@ static void sd_read_write_same(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer)
 	}

 	if (scsi_report_opcode(sdev, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE, INQUIRY) < 0) {
+		/* too large values might cause issues with arcmsr */
+		int vpd_buf_len = 64;
+
 		sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1;

 		/* Disable WRITE SAME if REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION
 		 * CODES is unsupported and the device has an ATA
 		 * Information VPD page (SAT).
 		 */
-		if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE))
+		if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, vpd_buf_len))
 			sdev->no_write_same = 1;
 	}

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1.8.3.2