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    scsi: sd: Fix cache_type_store() · 44759979
    Ivan Mironov authored
    
    
    Changing of caching mode via /sys/devices/.../scsi_disk/.../cache_type may
    fail if device responds to MODE SENSE command with DPOFUA flag set, and
    then checks this flag to be not set on MODE SELECT command.
    
    In this scenario, when trying to change cache_type, write always fails:
    
    	# echo "none" >cache_type
    	bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
    
    And following appears in dmesg:
    
    	[13007.865745] sd 1:0:1:0: [sda] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
    	[13007.865753] sd 1:0:1:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Invalid field in parameter list
    
    From SBC-4 r15, 6.5.1 "Mode pages overview", description of DEVICE-SPECIFIC
    PARAMETER field in the mode parameter header:
    	...
    	The write protect (WP) bit for mode data sent with a MODE SELECT
    	command shall be ignored by the device server.
    	...
    	The DPOFUA bit is reserved for mode data sent with a MODE SELECT
    	command.
    	...
    
    The remaining bits in the DEVICE-SPECIFIC PARAMETER byte are also reserved
    and shall be set to zero.
    
    [mkp: shuffled commentary to commit description]
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIvan Mironov <mironov.ivan@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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