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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "[SCSI] Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1376606876-22443-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Aug. 15, 2013, 10:47 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    [SCSI] Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From a97cd059d4a8ef3f55d31e89c70f6b873d983bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:58:34 -0400
Subject: [SCSI] Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if
 skip_vpd_pages is set

commit 7562523e84ddc742fe1f9db8bd76b01acca89f6b upstream.

If a device has the skip_vpd_pages flag set we should simply fail the
scsi_get_vpd_page() call.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Stuart Foster <smf.linux@ntlworld.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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1.8.1.2
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
index 3b1ea34..eaa808e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -1031,6 +1031,9 @@  int scsi_get_vpd_page(struct scsi_device *sdev, u8 page, unsigned char *buf,
 {
 	int i, result;

+	if (sdev->skip_vpd_pages)
+		goto fail;
+
 	/* Ask for all the pages supported by this device */
 	result = scsi_vpd_inquiry(sdev, buf, 0, buf_len);
 	if (result)