Hi Bryant,

On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 19:17 -0400, Bryant G Ly wrote:

Quoting "Nicholas A. Bellinger" [off-list ref]:

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So AFAICT for delayed commands, the above patch ends up skipping these
three checks subsequently when doing __target_execute_cmd() directly
from target_restart_delayed_cmds(), no..?

After pondering this some more, what about moving these checks into
__target_execute_cmd() to handle both target_core_transport.c cases
instead..?

We'll also need a parameter for internal COMPARE_AND_WRITE usage
within compare_and_write_callback(), to bypass checks upon secondary
->execute_cmd() WRITE payload submission after READ + COMPARE has
completed successfully.

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Looks good to me.

Thanks for the review!

Nick just to let you know I've been working with  
Mike on VSCSI Target Fabric and we need this patch in kernel 4.4 do
you know of the process in getting that there?

So pending a bit more list feedback + testing across multiple fabric
drivers, it's been added for the moment to target-pending/queue as post
-rc1 material.

As it merged into target-pending/master next week, the extra stable CC'
can be added to be picked up for linux-4.4.y stable and friends.

Also AFAIK, we've not had reports of other SCSI host environments
triggering this bug, but it's still a good idea to consider it for
linux-3.x.y backport at some point as well.