[PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch at infradead.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:19 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org;
> ohering at suse.com; jbottomley at parallels.com; jasowang at redhat.com;
> apw at canonical.com; linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org; stable at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases
> 
> >  	default:
> >  		vm_srb->data_in = UNKNOWN_TYPE;
> > -		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags = 0;
> > +		vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |=
> (SRB_FLAGS_DATA_IN |
> > +						     SRB_FLAGS_DATA_OUT);
> 
> This would usually be a command that doesn't transfer data (e.g.
> TEST_UNIT_READY or SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE), do you really want to set the in
> and out flags here?

On the host, before they forward the command to the native driver stack, I am told they validate that the flags be correctly set because of some bugs in the Emulex driver.

K. Y