[SCSI] Enable retries for SYNCRONIZE_CACHE commands to fix I/O error

Some arrays are giving I/O errors with ext3 filesystems when
SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE gets a UNIT_ATTENTION.  What is happening is that
these commands have no retries, so the UNIT_ATTENTION causes the
barrier to fail.  We should be enable retries here to clear any
transient error and allow the barrier to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Cc: Stable Tree <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 8b827f37b03ef95195be9736b9495cec6d390c5c..de6c60320f6ffb70f1b9d00a1677f1f36caabba0 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1040,6 +1040,7 @@ static void sd_prepare_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 {
        rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC;
        rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT;
+       rq->retries = SD_MAX_RETRIES;
        rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE;
        rq->cmd_len = 10;
 }