[SCSI] fix removable device inability to detect disk changes

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:14 +0200
Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it> wrote:

> Fujitsu magneto-optical drive, Adaptec 29160 and
> Linux Jay 2.6.26 #7 SMP Sun Aug 10 18:34:22 CEST 2008 ppc 7455, altivec supported PowerMac3,6 GNU/Linux
>
> When I insert a disk and I mount it, scsi_test_unit_ready() is called and
> the do-while loop gets sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION in the first
> cycle and 0 in the second one. So the if below misses the UNIT_ATTENTION
> and sdev->changed = 1 is not executed. At this point bad things can
> happen... I'm not sure how to fix this. Any clue ?

The problem is essentially caused by us eating UNIT_ATTENTION
conditions in scsi_test_unit_ready().  Fix by updating the ->changed
flag when this happens if the media is removable.

[pochini@shiny.it: updates to tidy up patch]
Signed-off-by: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index e5a9526d2037..f35a0951e469 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -2105,22 +2105,21 @@ scsi_test_unit_ready(struct scsi_device *sdev, int timeout, int retries,
 	do {
 		result = scsi_execute_req(sdev, cmd, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, sshdr,
 					  timeout, retries);
-	} while ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) &&
-		 sshdr && sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION &&
-		 --retries);
+		if (sdev->removable && scsi_sense_valid(sshdr) &&
+		    sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION)
+			sdev->changed = 1;
+	} while (scsi_sense_valid(sshdr) &&
+		 sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION && --retries);
 
 	if (!sshdr)
 		/* could not allocate sense buffer, so can't process it */
 		return result;
 
-	if ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) && sdev->removable) {
-
-		if ((scsi_sense_valid(sshdr)) &&
-		    ((sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION) ||
-		     (sshdr->sense_key == NOT_READY))) {
-			sdev->changed = 1;
-			result = 0;
-		}
+	if (sdev->removable && scsi_sense_valid(sshdr) &&
+	    (sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION ||
+	     sshdr->sense_key == NOT_READY)) {
+		sdev->changed = 1;
+		result = 0;
 	}
 	if (!sshdr_external)
 		kfree(sshdr);