hpsa driver has problems with interacting with tape drives and media changer

[Karsten Elfenbein]

There are multiple problems with tape drives when using a media changer on an hpsa controller.
The problem appears for example when you label tapes in Dell Netvault.

The problem does not appear in current vanilla kernel 4.2.3.

After bisecting the problem the actually first good commit is:
3ce438df106826edde7ad724f3819716a3f0cf56 is the first bad commit
commit 3ce438df106826edde7ad724f3819716a3f0cf56
Author: Matt Gates <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Dec 4 17:10:36 2013 -0600

    [SCSI] hpsa: allow SCSI mid layer to handle unit attention

    We were clobbering the SCSI status and setting
    cmd->result = DID_SOFT_ERROR << 16; to get a retry,
    but better to let the mid layer handle the unit
    attention.

    Signed-off-by: Matt Gates <email address hidden>
    Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <email address hidden>

:040000 040000 a7ea924772d20fd6faa968a855cffdb864876264 99765902968200eacf3a6ff1267b691a7bb24ebe M drivers

thanks to git bisecting rules:
good = label errors = old kernel
bad = no label errors = newer kernel

Please consider backporting that fix to the 3.13 ubuntu kernel.
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.13
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
MarkForUpload: True
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: precise precise
Uname: Linux 4.2.3-custom x86_64
UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.13
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
MarkForUpload: True
Package: linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic 3.13.0-65.106~precise1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 4.2.3-custom x86_64
UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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[Karsten Elfenbein (karsten-elfenbein)]

apport information

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

I built a Trusty test kernel with a cherry pick of commit: 3ce438df10. The test kernel can be downloaded from:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1512415/

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Note, you will need to install both the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.

[Karsten Elfenbein (karsten-elfenbein)]

I will try tomorrow.

Thanks
Karsten

[Karsten Elfenbein (karsten-elfenbein)]

Hi Joseph,

the tape drives and autochanger now work as expected with the provided kernel.

Thanks
Karsten

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-73.116

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linux (3.13.0-73.116) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1522858

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "dm: fix AB-BA deadlock in __dm_destroy()"
    - LP: #1522766
  * dm: fix AB-BA deadlock in __dm_destroy()
    - LP: #1522766

linux (3.13.0-72.115) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1521979

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [Packaging] control -- make element ordering deterministic
    - LP: #1516686
  * [Packaging] control -- prepare for new kernel-wedge semantics
    - LP: #1516686
  * [Tests] rebuild -- fix up rebuild test
    - LP: #1516686
  * [Debian] rebuild should only trigger for non-linux packages
    - LP: #1498862, #1516686
  * [Tests] gcc-multilib does not exist on ppc64el
    - LP: #1515541

  [ Craig Magina ]

  * [Config] Enable USB for arm64
    - LP: #1514971

  [ Duc Dang ]

  * SAUCE: (noup) arm64: dts: Add USB nodes for APM X-Gene v1 platforms
    - LP: #1514971

  [ Joseph Salisbury ]

  * SAUCE: scsi_sysfs: protect against double execution of
    __scsi_remove_device()
    - LP: #1509029

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "ARM64: unwind: Fix PC calculation"
    - LP: #1520264
  * [SCSI] hpsa: allow SCSI mid layer to handle unit attention
    - LP: #1512415
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    - LP: #1514971
  * usb: Add support for ACPI identification to xhci-platform
    - LP: #1514971
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  * isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open()
    - LP: #1520264
  * ppp, slip: Validate VJ compression slot parameters completely
    - LP: #1520264
  * staging/dgnc: fix info leak in ioctl
    - LP: #1520264
  * regmap: debugfs: Ensure we don't underflow when printing access masks
    - LP: #1520264
  * regmap: debugfs: Don't bother actually printing when calculating max
    length
    - LP: #1520264
  * tools lib traceevent: Fix string handling in heterogeneous arch
    environments
    - LP: #1520264
  * perf tools: Fix copying of /proc/kcore
    - LP: #1520264
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    - LP: #1520264
  * m68k: Define asmlinkage_protect
    - LP: #1520264
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    - LP: #1520264
  * x86/xen: Do not clip xen_e820_map to xen_e820_map_entries when
    sanitizing map
    - LP: #1520264
  * UBI: return ENOSPC if no enough space available
    - LP: #1520264
  * s390/boot: fix boot of compressed kernel built with gcc 4.9
    - LP: #1520264
  * s390/boot/decompression: disable floating point in decompressor
    - LP: #1520264
  * MIPS: dma-default: Fix 32-bit fall back to GFP_DMA
    - LP: #1520264
  * drm/qxl: recreate the primary surface when the bo is not primary
    - LP: #1520264
  * genirq: Fix race in register_irq_proc()
    - LP: #1520264
  * KVM: nSVM: Check for NRIPS support before updating control field
    - LP: #1520264
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    - LP: #1520264
  * dm: fix AB-BA deadlock in __dm_destroy()
    - LP: #15202...