From: Chris J Arges Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:22:25 +0000 (-0500) Subject: mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8fd7a73aa51373d7c16440269244c3865a61a9bf;p=karo-tx-linux.git mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks commit 4089b71cc820a426d601283c92fcd4ffeb5139c2 upstream. When using a virtual SCSI disk in a VMWare VM if blkdev_issue_zeroout is used data can be improperly zeroed out using the mptfusion driver. This patch disables write_same for this driver and the vmware subsystem_vendor which ensures that manual zeroing out is used instead. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371591 Reported-by: Bruce Lucas Tested-by: Chris J Arges Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c index 5653e505f91f..424f51d1e2ce 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c @@ -1422,6 +1422,11 @@ mptspi_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) goto out_mptspi_probe; } + /* VMWare emulation doesn't properly implement WRITE_SAME + */ + if (pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x15AD) + sh->no_write_same = 1; + spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); /* Attach the SCSI Host to the IOC structure