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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2012-06-20 16:04:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-22 22:05:31 -0700 |
| commit | 6a0bdffa0073857870a4ed1b4489762146359eb4 (patch) | |
| tree | ad189d34420a54cdde107a936e5b10a371bc12ca /include/scsi/scsi_device.h | |
| parent | 1e2c4e59d2b8797973471b4a287a43eac12a0f40 (diff) | |
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SCSI & usb-storage: add try_rc_10_first flag
Several bug reports have been received recently for USB mass-storage
devices that don't handle READ CAPACITY(16) commands properly. They
report bogus sizes, in some cases becoming unusable as a result.
The bugs were triggered by commit
09b6b51b0b6c1b9bb61815baf205e4d74c89ff04 (SCSI & usb-storage: add
flags for VPD pages and REPORT LUNS), which caused usb-storage to stop
overriding the SCSI level reported by devices. By default, the sd
driver will try READ CAPACITY(16) first for any device whose level is
above SCSI_SPC_2.
It seems likely that any device large enough to require the use of
READ CAPACITY(16) (i.e., 2 TB or more) would be able to handle READ
CAPACITY(10) commands properly. Indeed, I don't know of any devices
that don't handle READ CAPACITY(10) properly.
Therefore this patch (as1559) adds a new flag telling the sd driver
to try READ CAPACITY(10) before READ CAPACITY(16), and sets this flag
for every USB mass-storage device. If a device really is larger than
2 TB, sd will fall back to READ CAPACITY(16) just as it used to.
This fixes Bugzilla #43391.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
CC: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
CC: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/scsi/scsi_device.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h index 6efb2e1416e0..ba9698852321 100644 --- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ struct scsi_device { SD_LAST_BUGGY_SECTORS */ unsigned no_read_disc_info:1; /* Avoid READ_DISC_INFO cmds */ unsigned no_read_capacity_16:1; /* Avoid READ_CAPACITY_16 cmds */ + unsigned try_rc_10_first:1; /* Try READ_CAPACACITY_10 first */ unsigned is_visible:1; /* is the device visible in sysfs */ DECLARE_BITMAP(supported_events, SDEV_EVT_MAXBITS); /* supported events */ |