Low-level device drivers have had the ability to limit the size of an
INQUIRY for many years. This made sense for a wide variety of legacy
devices. However, we are unnecessarily truncating the INQUIRY response for
many modern devices. This prevents us from consulting fields beyond the
first 36 bytes.
If a device reports that it supports a larger INQUIRY response, and the
device also reports that it implements SPC-4 or newer, allow the larger
INQUIRY to proceed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220302053559.32147-4-martin.petersen@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
if (pass == 1) {
if (BLIST_INQUIRY_36 & *bflags)
next_inquiry_len = 36;
- else if (sdev->inquiry_len)
+ /*
+ * LLD specified a maximum sdev->inquiry_len
+ * but device claims it has more data. Capping
+ * the length only makes sense for legacy
+ * devices. If a device supports SPC-4 (2014)
+ * or newer, assume that it is safe to ask for
+ * as much as the device says it supports.
+ */
+ else if (sdev->inquiry_len &&
+ response_len > sdev->inquiry_len &&
+ (inq_result[2] & 0x7) < 6) /* SPC-4 */
next_inquiry_len = sdev->inquiry_len;
else
next_inquiry_len = response_len;