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2013-10-13 17:23:29

Subject: PROBLEM: special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

Hi James,

[1.] One line summary of the problem:
special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
For instance, storage represents 8 iscsi LUNs, however the LUN No.7 is
not well configured or has something wrong.
Then messages received:
kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected response from lun 7 while scanning,
scan aborted
Which will make LUN No.8 unavailable.
It's confirmed that Windows and Solaris systems will continue the scan
and make LUN No.1,2,3,4,5,6 and 8 available.

Log snippet is as below:
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi scan: INQUIRY
pass 1 length 36
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Send: 0xffff8801e9bd4280
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB: Inquiry: 12 00
00 00 24 00
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: buffer = 0xffff8801f71fc180,
bufflen = 36, queuecommand 0xffffffffa00b99e7
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd()
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Done:
0xffff8801e9bd4280 SUCCESS
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Result:
hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB: Inquiry: 12 00
00 00 24 00
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Sense Key : Not Ready
[current]
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Add. Sense: Logical
unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi host busy 1 failed 0
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: 0 sectors total, 36 bytes done.
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY failed with code
0x8000002
Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected response
from lun 7 while scanning, scan aborted

According to scsi_report_lun_scan(), I found:
Linux use an inquiry command to probe a lun according to the result of
report_lun command.
It assumes every probe cmd will get a legal result. Otherwise, it
regards the whole peripheral not exist or dead.
If the return of inquiry passes its legal checking and indicates 'LUN
not present', it won't break but also continue with the scan process.
In the log, inquiry to LUN7 return a sense - asc,ascq=04h,0Ch (Logical
unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state).
And this is ignored, so scsi_probe_lun() returns -EIO and the scan
process is aborted.

I have two questions:
1. Is it correct for hardware to return a sense 04h,0Ch to inquiry
again, even after presenting this lun in responce to REPORT_LUN command?
2. Since windows and solaris can continue scan, is it reasonable for
linux to do the same, even for a fault-tolerance purpose?

Below is information of our storage setting:
Storage array is configured as a cluster mode, and there is a "default"
target group and "default" initiator group exist on
the storage that includes the target nodename of both the nodes in the
cluster and all initiator names respectively.
In the partner node, there was lun mapped to the default target
group/initiator group and having the ID 7.
Since that lun is owner by the partner node, the SCSI inquiry was
failing on it and as a result the initiator aborts the scan.

Thanks,
Vaughan

2013-10-14 11:13:50

On 10/14/2013 05:24 PM, Steffen Maier wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 03:32 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2013 02:51 PM, Steffen Maier wrote:
>>>> On 10/14/2013 01:13 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>>> On 10/13/2013 07:23 PM, Vaughan Cao wrote:
>>>>>> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>>>>>> special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>>>>>> For instance, storage represents 8 iscsi LUNs, however the LUN
>>>>>> No.7
>>>>>> is not well configured or has something wrong.
>>>>>> Then messages received:
>>>>>> kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected response from lun 7 while
>>>>>> scanning, scan aborted
>>>>>> Which will make LUN No.8 unavailable.
>>>>>> It's confirmed that Windows and Solaris systems will continue the
>>>>>> scan and make LUN No.1,2,3,4,5,6 and 8 available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Log snippet is as below:
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi scan:
>>>>>> INQUIRY pass 1 length 36
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Send:
>>>>>> 0xffff8801e9bd4280
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB:
>>>>>> Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: buffer =
>>>>>> 0xffff8801f71fc180, bufflen = 36, queuecommand 0xffffffffa00b99e7
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd()
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Done:
>>>>>> 0xffff8801e9bd4280 SUCCESS
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Result:
>>>>>> hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB:
>>>>>> Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Sense Key :
>>>>>> Not Ready [current]
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Add. Sense:
>>>>>> Logical unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi host
>>>>>> busy 1 failed 0
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: 0 sectors total, 36 bytes
>>>>>> done.
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY failed
>>>>>> with code 0x8000002
>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected
>>>>>> response from lun 7 while scanning, scan aborted
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to scsi_report_lun_scan(), I found:
>>>>>> Linux use an inquiry command to probe a lun according to the
>>>>>> result
>>>>>> of report_lun command.
>>>>>> It assumes every probe cmd will get a legal result. Otherwise, it
>>>>>> regards the whole peripheral not exist or dead.
>>>>>> If the return of inquiry passes its legal checking and indicates
>>>>>> 'LUN not present', it won't break but also continue with the scan
>>>>>> process.
>>>>>> In the log, inquiry to LUN7 return a sense - asc,ascq=04h,0Ch
>>>>>> (Logical unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state).
>>>>>> And this is ignored, so scsi_probe_lun() returns -EIO and the
>>>>>> scan
>>>>>> process is aborted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have two questions:
>>>>>> 1. Is it correct for hardware to return a sense 04h,0Ch to
>>>>>> inquiry
>>>>>> again, even after presenting this lun in responce to REPORT_LUN
>>>>>> command?
>>>>> Yes, this is correct. 'REPORT LUNS' is supported in
>>>>> 'Unavailable' state.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Since windows and solaris can continue scan, is it
>>>>>> reasonable for
>>>>>> linux to do the same, even for a fault-tolerance purpose?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Yes, and no.
>>>>>
>>>>> _Actually_ this is an issue with the target, as it looks as if it
>>>>> will return the above sense code while sending an 'INQUIRY' to the
>>>>> device.
>>>>> SPC explicitely states that the INQUIRY command should _not_ fail
>>>>> for unavailable devices.
>>>>> But yeah, we probably should work around this issues.
>>>>> Nevertheless, please raise this issue with your array vendor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please try the attached patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hannes
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From b0e90778f012010c881f8bdc03bce63a36921b77 Mon Sep 17
>>>>> 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:11:22 +0200
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] scsi_scan: continue report_lun_scan after error
>>>>>
>>>>> When scsi_probe_and_add_lun() fails in scsi_report_lun_scan() this
>>>>> does _not_ indicate that the entire target is done for.
>>>>> So continue scanning for the remaining devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>> index 307a811..973a121 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>> @@ -1484,13 +1484,12 @@ static int scsi_report_lun_scan(struct
>>>>> scsi_target *starget, int bflags,
>>>>> lun, NULL, NULL, rescan, NULL);
>>>>> if (res == SCSI_SCAN_NO_RESPONSE) {
>>>>> /*
>>>>> - * Got some results, but now none, abort.
>>>>> + * Got some results, but now none, ignore.
>>>>> */
>>>>> sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, sdev,
>>>>> "Unexpected response"
>>>>> - " from lun %d while scanning, scan"
>>>>> - " aborted\n", lun);
>>>>> - break;
>>>>> + " from lun %d while scanning,"
>>>>> + " ignoring device\n", lun);
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> In LLDDs that do their own initiator based LUN masking (because
>>>> the midlayer does not have this
>>>> functionality to enable hardware virtualization without NPIV, or
>>> to work around suboptimal LUN
>>>> masking on the target), they are likely to return -ENXIO from
>>> slave_alloc(), making scsi_alloc_sdev()
>>>> return NULL, being converted to SCSI_SCAN_NO_RESPONSE by
>>> scsi_probe_and_add_lun() and thus going
>>>> through the same code path above.
>>>>
>>> Ah. Hmm. Yes, they would.
>>>
>>> However, I personally would question this approach, as SPC states
>>> that
>>>
>>>> The REPORT LUNS command (see table 284) requests the device
>>>> server to return the peripheral device logical unit inventory
>>>> accessible to the I_T nexus.
>>>
>>> So by plain reading this would meant that you either should modify
>>> 'REPORT LUNS' to not show the masked LUNs, or set the pqual field to
>>> '0x10' or '0x11' for those LUNs.
>
> We need to distinguish two cases:
> 1) suboptimal lun masking on the target
> 2) hardware virtualization without NPIV
>
> Regarding 1, one could require fixing lun masking on the target.
> However, some users cannot or do not want to do it very fine
> granular. That's why s390 also does deferred device probing ("set
> online" in sysfs) or even limits bus sensing (cio_ignore).
>
> Regarding 2, fixing lun masking on the target does not help because
> without NPIV, the target cannot distinguish the different virtual
> initators since they are all behind one shared WWPN (and N-Port_ID).
> This forces zfcp to implement initiator based lun masking, because
> only the user can tell which lun to attach to which of the virtual
> initiators sharing the same physical port. Without that, Linux would
> attach all luns to all virtual initiators, i.e. share inadvertently.
>
>>>> E.g. zfcp does return -ENXIO if the particular LUN was not made
>>>> known to the unit whitelist
>>>> (via zfcp sysfs attribute unit_add).
>>>> If we attach LUN 0 (via unit_add) and trigger a target scan with
>>>> SCAN_WILD_CARD for the scsi
>>>> lun (e.g. on remote port recovery), we see exactly above error
>>> message for the first LUN in
>>>> the response of report lun which is not explicitly attached to
>>>> zfcp.
>>>> IIRC, other LLDDs such as bfa also do similar stuff
>>>> [http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=134489842105383&w=2].
>>>>
>>>> For those cases, I think it makes sense to abort
>>>> scsi_report_lun_scan().
>>>> Otherwise we would force the LLDD to return -ENXIO for every
>>> single LUN reported by report lun but not
>>>> explicitly added to the LLDD LUN whitelist; and this would likely
>>> *flood kernel messages*.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe Vaughan's case needs to be distinguished in a patch.
>>>>
>>> Well, as mentioned initially, the real issue is that the target
>>> aborts an INQUIRY while being in 'Unavailable'. Which, according to
>>> SPC-3 (or later), is a violation of the spec.
>>>
>>> So we _could_ just tell them to go away, but admittedly that's bad
>>> style. Which means we'll have to implement a workaround; the above
>>> was just a simple way of implementing it. If that's not working of
>>> course we'll have to do something else.
>>>
>> What about this patch:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> index 973a121..01a7d69 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> @@ -594,6 +594,19 @@ static int scsi_probe_lun(struct scsi_device
>> *sdev, unsigne
>> d char *inq_result,
>> (sshdr.asc == 0x29)) &&
>> (sshdr.ascq == 0))
>> continue;
>> + /*
>> + * Some buggy implementations return
>> + * 'target port in unavailable state'
>> + * even on INQUIRY.
>> + * Set peripheral qualifier 3
>> + * for these devices.
>> + */
>> + if ((sshdr.sense_key == NOT_READY) &&
>> + ((sshdr.asc == 0x04) &&
>> + (sshdr.ascq == 0x0C))) {
>
> style question: lower case hex digits? 0x0c
>
Yeah. This is a test, after all ...

> Any reason why you put the conjunction of asc and ascq inside its
> own brackets instead of having all three (including sense_key) on
> the same level of one larger conjunction (as the code above does for
> UA asc 0x28/0x29 ascq 0x00)? Should be semantically equivalent,
> isn't it? But then again, ascq always goes with asc, so they form a
> kind of pair.
>
No reason, Just copy&paste error from the above statement ...

>> + inq_result[0] = 3 << 5;
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>> }
>> } else {
>> /*
>>
>> (watchout, linebreaks mangled and all that).
>> Should be working for this particular case without interrupting
>> normal workflow, now should it not?
>
> The approach of distinguishing the workaround close to the response
> of the inquiry sounds good to me. I suppose it won't break zfcp
> which is good. Unfortunately, I don't know what the ramifications of
> PQ==3 are (the SPC-4 description sounds good, though), nor enough
> details about this common code to tell if e.g. the early return is
> OK (skipping setting sdev->scsi_level near the end of
> scsi_probe_lun()). But then again, without inquiry reply we cannot
> get the level from the response. So I think the early return is OK
> after all.
> I guess we want to get around "if (result) return -EIO;" but also do
> not want to execute the parts depending on result==0.
>
> SPC-4 says that for PQ==3 the PDT should be set to 0x1f. Do we need
> to fake this here as well? (I assume the target did not fill in a
> PDT on its own when replying with sense data.)
>
> The clarification on the T10 reflector seems to say that Linux would
> then accept LUNs with PQ 3, but the target shall not have put LUs
> with PQ 3 into the LU inventory in the first place?
> Anyway, I'm not opposed to the workaround.
>
Well, first and foremost this is a workaround for buggy array
firmware. If any port would be in 'unavailable' the target port is
still required to respond to an INQUIRY.
_Not_ doing so leaves us with no indication what's going on here.

The main reason why I chose PQ=3 here is that we'll end up ignoring
this device scsi_probe_and_add_lun() later on.
Saving my coding higher up the stack.
And, seeing that the device is never actually allocated, the
modifications we did for the inquiry data will be deleted anyway.

So using PQ=3 here is just a vehicle for telling the system to not
create a SCSI device at this LUN, _not_ something which has some
relevance to SPC.

But seeing that this approach raises quite some issues I've attached
a different patch.
Vaughan, could you test with that, too? Should be functionally
equivalent to the previous one.

Cheers,

Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
[email protected] +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imend?rffer, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg)

Attachments:

scsi_scan-continue-scan-for-LUNs-in.patch (2.11 kB)

2013-10-16 07:23:36

by vaughan

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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

On 10/16/2013 02:52 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> But seeing that this approach raises quite some issues I've attached a
> different patch. Vaughan, could you test with that, too? Should be
> functionally equivalent to the previous one. Cheers, Hannes
Of course. This one is more clear to express our intention than setting
PQ 3 to break out.

Vaughan

2013-10-21 06:05:09

by vaughan

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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

On 10/16/2013 02:52 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> But seeing that this approach raises quite some issues I've attached a
> different patch. Vaughan, could you test with that, too? Should be
> functionally equivalent to the previous one. Cheers, Hannes
Hi Hannes,

We only tested the later patch which returns _TARGET_PRESENT after
parsing sense, it works as expected.

About the cause of this issue, admin said he is configuring a
active-active cluster mode storage. Each node has it own LUN pool and a
set of rule to control which node can access the pool.
LUN7 is owned and can only be able to manipulated by the other node, but
can be seen by this node for a misconfig. So it presents itself in
REPORT_LUN but return NOT_READY when accessed through this node.
Do you still regard this as a misbehave in response to INQUIRY?

Thanks,
Vaughan

2013-10-22 15:03:49

by Hannes Reinecke

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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

On 10/21/2013 08:07 AM, vaughan wrote:
> On 10/16/2013 02:52 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> But seeing that this approach raises quite some issues I've attached a
>> different patch. Vaughan, could you test with that, too? Should be
>> functionally equivalent to the previous one. Cheers, Hannes
> Hi Hannes,
>
> We only tested the later patch which returns _TARGET_PRESENT after
> parsing sense, it works as expected.
>
> About the cause of this issue, admin said he is configuring a
> active-active cluster mode storage. Each node has it own LUN pool and a
> set of rule to control which node can access the pool.
> LUN7 is owned and can only be able to manipulated by the other node, but
> can be seen by this node for a misconfig. So it presents itself in
> REPORT_LUN but return NOT_READY when accessed through this node.
> Do you still regard this as a misbehave in response to INQUIRY?
>
Yes. INQUIRY _has_ to succeed. The only exceptions here would be devices
in 'Offline' state.
But other that that, yes, INQUIRY should never abort with an error,
especially for ALUA.
ALUA relies on 'report target port groups' and INQUIRY EVPD page 0x83 to
identify the target port group state.
So if INQUIRY does _not_ work you cannot figure out the ALUA state,
and by rights you would need to disable ALUA there.

Cheers,

Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
[email protected] +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

2014-02-19 08:28:50

by vaughan

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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle

Hi Hannes,

Sorry to bother you.
Months ago, you made a patch to fix this scsi_scan abort error found on
zfssa storage. Though it's only a specific storage, the logic -- not
abort scsi scan process because of an inquiry failure of a LU in the
middle, is helpful as a way to make our scanning more resilient. I'd
prefer to keep our device scanning behavior in sync with other OS like
Solaris and Windows.
Will you merge your patch in mainline? You can find the patch here
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg521753.html

Regards,
Vaughan

On 10/16/2013 02:52 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 05:24 PM, Steffen Maier wrote:
>> On 10/14/2013 03:32 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> On 10/14/2013 02:51 PM, Steffen Maier wrote:
>>>>> On 10/14/2013 01:13 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/13/2013 07:23 PM, Vaughan Cao wrote:
>>>>>>> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>>>>>>> special sense code asc,ascq=04h,0Ch abort scsi scan in the middle
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>>>>>>> For instance, storage represents 8 iscsi LUNs, however the LUN
>>>>>>> No.7
>>>>>>> is not well configured or has something wrong.
>>>>>>> Then messages received:
>>>>>>> kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected response from lun 7 while
>>>>>>> scanning, scan aborted
>>>>>>> Which will make LUN No.8 unavailable.
>>>>>>> It's confirmed that Windows and Solaris systems will continue the
>>>>>>> scan and make LUN No.1,2,3,4,5,6 and 8 available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Log snippet is as below:
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi scan:
>>>>>>> INQUIRY pass 1 length 36
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Send:
>>>>>>> 0xffff8801e9bd4280
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB:
>>>>>>> Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: buffer =
>>>>>>> 0xffff8801f71fc180, bufflen = 36, queuecommand 0xffffffffa00b99e7
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd()
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Done:
>>>>>>> 0xffff8801e9bd4280 SUCCESS
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Result:
>>>>>>> hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: CDB:
>>>>>>> Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Sense Key :
>>>>>>> Not Ready [current]
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: Add. Sense:
>>>>>>> Logical unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:7: scsi host
>>>>>>> busy 1 failed 0
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: 0 sectors total, 36 bytes
>>>>>>> done.
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY failed
>>>>>>> with code 0x8000002
>>>>>>> Aug 24 00:32:49 vmhodtest019 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Unexpected
>>>>>>> response from lun 7 while scanning, scan aborted
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> According to scsi_report_lun_scan(), I found:
>>>>>>> Linux use an inquiry command to probe a lun according to the
>>>>>>> result
>>>>>>> of report_lun command.
>>>>>>> It assumes every probe cmd will get a legal result. Otherwise, it
>>>>>>> regards the whole peripheral not exist or dead.
>>>>>>> If the return of inquiry passes its legal checking and indicates
>>>>>>> 'LUN not present', it won't break but also continue with the scan
>>>>>>> process.
>>>>>>> In the log, inquiry to LUN7 return a sense - asc,ascq=04h,0Ch
>>>>>>> (Logical unit not accessible, target port in unavailable state).
>>>>>>> And this is ignored, so scsi_probe_lun() returns -EIO and the
>>>>>>> scan
>>>>>>> process is aborted.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have two questions:
>>>>>>> 1. Is it correct for hardware to return a sense 04h,0Ch to
>>>>>>> inquiry
>>>>>>> again, even after presenting this lun in responce to REPORT_LUN
>>>>>>> command?
>>>>>> Yes, this is correct. 'REPORT LUNS' is supported in
>>>>>> 'Unavailable' state.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Since windows and solaris can continue scan, is it
>>>>>>> reasonable for
>>>>>>> linux to do the same, even for a fault-tolerance purpose?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm. Yes, and no.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Actually_ this is an issue with the target, as it looks as if it
>>>>>> will return the above sense code while sending an 'INQUIRY' to the
>>>>>> device.
>>>>>> SPC explicitely states that the INQUIRY command should _not_ fail
>>>>>> for unavailable devices.
>>>>>> But yeah, we probably should work around this issues.
>>>>>> Nevertheless, please raise this issue with your array vendor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please try the attached patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hannes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From b0e90778f012010c881f8bdc03bce63a36921b77 Mon Sep 17
>>>>>> 00:00:00 2001
>>>>>> From: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:11:22 +0200
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] scsi_scan: continue report_lun_scan after error
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When scsi_probe_and_add_lun() fails in scsi_report_lun_scan() this
>>>>>> does _not_ indicate that the entire target is done for.
>>>>>> So continue scanning for the remaining devices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>>> index 307a811..973a121 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>>>>> @@ -1484,13 +1484,12 @@ static int scsi_report_lun_scan(struct
>>>>>> scsi_target *starget, int bflags,
>>>>>> lun, NULL, NULL, rescan, NULL);
>>>>>> if (res == SCSI_SCAN_NO_RESPONSE) {
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> - * Got some results, but now none, abort.
>>>>>> + * Got some results, but now none, ignore.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, sdev,
>>>>>> "Unexpected response"
>>>>>> - " from lun %d while scanning, scan"
>>>>>> - " aborted\n", lun);
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> + " from lun %d while scanning,"
>>>>>> + " ignoring device\n", lun);
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>> In LLDDs that do their own initiator based LUN masking (because
>>>>> the midlayer does not have this
>>>>> functionality to enable hardware virtualization without NPIV, or
>>>> to work around suboptimal LUN
>>>>> masking on the target), they are likely to return -ENXIO from
>>>> slave_alloc(), making scsi_alloc_sdev()
>>>>> return NULL, being converted to SCSI_SCAN_NO_RESPONSE by
>>>> scsi_probe_and_add_lun() and thus going
>>>>> through the same code path above.
>>>>>
>>>> Ah. Hmm. Yes, they would.
>>>>
>>>> However, I personally would question this approach, as SPC states
>>>> that
>>>>
>>>>> The REPORT LUNS command (see table 284) requests the device
>>>>> server to return the peripheral device logical unit inventory
>>>>> accessible to the I_T nexus.
>>>> So by plain reading this would meant that you either should modify
>>>> 'REPORT LUNS' to not show the masked LUNs, or set the pqual field to
>>>> '0x10' or '0x11' for those LUNs.
>> We need to distinguish two cases:
>> 1) suboptimal lun masking on the target
>> 2) hardware virtualization without NPIV
>>
>> Regarding 1, one could require fixing lun masking on the target.
>> However, some users cannot or do not want to do it very fine
>> granular. That's why s390 also does deferred device probing ("set
>> online" in sysfs) or even limits bus sensing (cio_ignore).
>>
>> Regarding 2, fixing lun masking on the target does not help because
>> without NPIV, the target cannot distinguish the different virtual
>> initators since they are all behind one shared WWPN (and N-Port_ID).
>> This forces zfcp to implement initiator based lun masking, because
>> only the user can tell which lun to attach to which of the virtual
>> initiators sharing the same physical port. Without that, Linux would
>> attach all luns to all virtual initiators, i.e. share inadvertently.
>>
>>>>> E.g. zfcp does return -ENXIO if the particular LUN was not made
>>>>> known to the unit whitelist
>>>>> (via zfcp sysfs attribute unit_add).
>>>>> If we attach LUN 0 (via unit_add) and trigger a target scan with
>>>>> SCAN_WILD_CARD for the scsi
>>>>> lun (e.g. on remote port recovery), we see exactly above error
>>>> message for the first LUN in
>>>>> the response of report lun which is not explicitly attached to
>>>>> zfcp.
>>>>> IIRC, other LLDDs such as bfa also do similar stuff
>>>>> [http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=134489842105383&w=2].
>>>>>
>>>>> For those cases, I think it makes sense to abort
>>>>> scsi_report_lun_scan().
>>>>> Otherwise we would force the LLDD to return -ENXIO for every
>>>> single LUN reported by report lun but not
>>>>> explicitly added to the LLDD LUN whitelist; and this would likely
>>>> *flood kernel messages*.
>>>>> Maybe Vaughan's case needs to be distinguished in a patch.
>>>>>
>>>> Well, as mentioned initially, the real issue is that the target
>>>> aborts an INQUIRY while being in 'Unavailable'. Which, according to
>>>> SPC-3 (or later), is a violation of the spec.
>>>>
>>>> So we _could_ just tell them to go away, but admittedly that's bad
>>>> style. Which means we'll have to implement a workaround; the above
>>>> was just a simple way of implementing it. If that's not working of
>>>> course we'll have to do something else.
>>>>
>>> What about this patch:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>> index 973a121..01a7d69 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>>> @@ -594,6 +594,19 @@ static int scsi_probe_lun(struct scsi_device
>>> *sdev, unsigne
>>> d char *inq_result,
>>> (sshdr.asc == 0x29)) &&
>>> (sshdr.ascq == 0))
>>> continue;
>>> + /*
>>> + * Some buggy implementations return
>>> + * 'target port in unavailable state'
>>> + * even on INQUIRY.
>>> + * Set peripheral qualifier 3
>>> + * for these devices.
>>> + */
>>> + if ((sshdr.sense_key == NOT_READY) &&
>>> + ((sshdr.asc == 0x04) &&
>>> + (sshdr.ascq == 0x0C))) {
>> style question: lower case hex digits? 0x0c
>>
> Yeah. This is a test, after all ...
>
>> Any reason why you put the conjunction of asc and ascq inside its
>> own brackets instead of having all three (including sense_key) on
>> the same level of one larger conjunction (as the code above does for
>> UA asc 0x28/0x29 ascq 0x00)? Should be semantically equivalent,
>> isn't it? But then again, ascq always goes with asc, so they form a
>> kind of pair.
>>
> No reason, Just copy&paste error from the above statement ...
>
>>> + inq_result[0] = 3 << 5;
>>> + return 0;
>>> + }
>>> }
>>> } else {
>>> /*
>>>
>>> (watchout, linebreaks mangled and all that).
>>> Should be working for this particular case without interrupting
>>> normal workflow, now should it not?
>> The approach of distinguishing the workaround close to the response
>> of the inquiry sounds good to me. I suppose it won't break zfcp
>> which is good. Unfortunately, I don't know what the ramifications of
>> PQ==3 are (the SPC-4 description sounds good, though), nor enough
>> details about this common code to tell if e.g. the early return is
>> OK (skipping setting sdev->scsi_level near the end of
>> scsi_probe_lun()). But then again, without inquiry reply we cannot
>> get the level from the response. So I think the early return is OK
>> after all.
>> I guess we want to get around "if (result) return -EIO;" but also do
>> not want to execute the parts depending on result==0.
>>
>> SPC-4 says that for PQ==3 the PDT should be set to 0x1f. Do we need
>> to fake this here as well? (I assume the target did not fill in a
>> PDT on its own when replying with sense data.)
>>
>> The clarification on the T10 reflector seems to say that Linux would
>> then accept LUNs with PQ 3, but the target shall not have put LUs
>> with PQ 3 into the LU inventory in the first place?
>> Anyway, I'm not opposed to the workaround.
>>
> Well, first and foremost this is a workaround for buggy array
> firmware. If any port would be in 'unavailable' the target port is
> still required to respond to an INQUIRY.
> _Not_ doing so leaves us with no indication what's going on here.
>
> The main reason why I chose PQ=3 here is that we'll end up ignoring
> this device scsi_probe_and_add_lun() later on.
> Saving my coding higher up the stack.
> And, seeing that the device is never actually allocated, the
> modifications we did for the inquiry data will be deleted anyway.
>
> So using PQ=3 here is just a vehicle for telling the system to not
> create a SCSI device at this LUN, _not_ something which has some
> relevance to SPC.
>
> But seeing that this approach raises quite some issues I've attached
> a different patch.
> Vaughan, could you test with that, too? Should be functionally
> equivalent to the previous one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes