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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2005-03-30 15:05:45 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>2005-09-06 17:19:23 -0500
commite47373ec1c9aab9ee134f4e2b8249957e9f4c7ef (patch)
treee6f630c08223f71d1cbb502213503404ec65d86f /drivers/scsi
parent4dddbc26c3895ecdab1f4b16435685b47f96f599 (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.c4
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;
}