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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2005-03-30 15:05:45 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)> | 2005-09-06 17:19:23 -0500 |
| commit | e47373ec1c9aab9ee134f4e2b8249957e9f4c7ef (patch) | |
| tree | e6f630c08223f71d1cbb502213503404ec65d86f /drivers/scsi | |
| parent | 4dddbc26c3895ecdab1f4b16435685b47f96f599 (diff) | |
[SCSI] return success after retries in scsi_eh_tur
The problem lies in the way the error handler uses TEST UNIT READY to
tell whether error recovery has succeeded. The scsi_eh_tur function
gives up after one round of retrying; after that it decides that more
error recovery is needed.
However TUR is liable to report sense data indicating a retry is needed
when in fact error recovery has succeeded. A typical example might be
SK=2, ASC=4, ASCQ=1 (Logical unit in process of becoming ready). The mere
fact that we were able to get a sensible reply to the TUR should indicate
that the device is working well enough to stop error recovery.
I ran across a case back in January where this happened. A CD-ROM drive
timed out the INQUIRY command, and a device reset fixed the blockage.
But then the drive kept responding with 2/4/1 -- because it was spinning
up I suppose -- until the error handler gave up and placed it offline.
If the initial INQUIRY had received the 2/4/1 instead, everything would
have worked okay. It doesn't seem reasonable for things to fail just
because the error handler had started running.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c index e9c451ba71f..688bce74078 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c @@ -776,9 +776,11 @@ retry_tur: __FUNCTION__, scmd, rtn)); if (rtn == SUCCESS) return 0; - else if (rtn == NEEDS_RETRY) + else if (rtn == NEEDS_RETRY) { if (retry_cnt--) goto retry_tur; + return 0; + } return 1; } |