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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/mpr/mpr_sas.c b/sys/dev/mpr/mpr_sas.c
index 64c0d07..45c0bbd 100644
--- a/sys/dev/mpr/mpr_sas.c
+++ b/sys/dev/mpr/mpr_sas.c
@@ -2469,11 +2469,20 @@ mprsas_scsiio_complete(struct mpr_softc *sc, struct mpr_command *cm)
case MPI2_IOCSTATUS_SCSI_IOC_TERMINATED:
case MPI2_IOCSTATUS_SCSI_EXT_TERMINATED:
/*
- * Since these are generally external (i.e. hopefully
- * transient transport-related) errors, retry these without
- * decrementing the retry count.
+ * These can sometimes be transient transport-related
+ * errors, and sometimes persistent drive-related errors.
+ * We used to retry these without decrementing the retry
+ * count by returning CAM_REQUEUE_REQ. Unfortunately, if
+ * we hit a persistent drive problem that returns one of
+ * these error codes, we would retry indefinitely. So,
+ * return CAM_REQ_CMP_ERROR so that we decrement the retry
+ * count and avoid infinite retries. We're taking the
+ * potential risk of flagging false failures in the event
+ * of a topology-related error (e.g. a SAS expander problem
+ * causes a command addressed to a drive to fail), but
+ * avoiding getting into an infinite retry loop.
*/
- mprsas_set_ccbstatus(ccb, CAM_REQUEUE_REQ);
+ mprsas_set_ccbstatus(ccb, CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR);
mprsas_log_command(cm, MPR_INFO,
"terminated ioc %x scsi %x state %x xfer %u\n",
le16toh(rep->IOCStatus), rep->SCSIStatus, rep->SCSIState,
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