Commit bcb44433 authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer
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dm: disable DISCARD if the underlying storage no longer supports it

Storage devices which report supporting discard commands like
WRITE_SAME_16 with unmap, but reject discard commands sent to the
storage device.  This is a clear storage firmware bug but it doesn't
change the fact that should a program cause discards to be sent to a
multipath device layered on this buggy storage, all paths can end up
failed at the same time from the discards, causing possible I/O loss.

The first discard to a path will fail with Illegal Request, Invalid
field in cdb, e.g.:
 kernel: sd 8:0:8:19: [sdfn] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
 kernel: sd 8:0:8:19: [sdfn] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
 kernel: sd 8:0:8:19: [sdfn] tag#0 Add. Sense: Invalid field in cdb
 kernel: sd 8:0:8:19: [sdfn] tag#0 CDB: Write same(16) 93 08 00 00 00 00 00 a0 08 00 00 00 80 00 00 00
 kernel: blk_update_request: critical target error, dev sdfn, sector 10487808

The SCSI layer converts this to the BLK_STS_T...
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