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<title>block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices</title>
<updated>2012-01-26T00:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-12T15:01:28+00:00</published>
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commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e upstream.

[ Changes with respect to 3.3: return -ENOTTY from scsi_verify_blk_ioctl
  and -ENOIOCTLCMD from sd_compat_ioctl. ]

Linux allows executing the SG_IO ioctl on a partition or LVM volume, and
will pass the command to the underlying block device.  This is
well-known, but it is also a large security problem when (via Unix
permissions, ACLs, SELinux or a combination thereof) a program or user
needs to be granted access only to part of the disk.

This patch lets partitions forward a small set of harmless ioctls;
others are logged with printk so that we can see which ioctls are
actually sent.  In my tests only CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY actually occurred.
Of course it was being sent to a (partition on a) hard disk, so it would
have failed with ENOTTY and the patch isn't changing anything in
practice.  Still, I'm treating it specially to avoid spamming the logs.

In principle, this restriction should include programs running with
CAP_SYS_RAWIO.  If for example I let a program access /dev/sda2 and
/dev/sdb, it still should not be able to read/write outside the
boundaries of /dev/sda2 independent of the capabilities.  However, for
now programs with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will still be allowed to send the
ioctls.  Their actions will still be logged.

This patch does not affect the non-libata IDE driver.  That driver
however already tests for bd != bd-&gt;bd_contains before issuing some
ioctl; it could be restricted further to forbid these ioctls even for
programs running with CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[ Make it also print the command name when warning - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e upstream.

[ Changes with respect to 3.3: return -ENOTTY from scsi_verify_blk_ioctl
  and -ENOIOCTLCMD from sd_compat_ioctl. ]

Linux allows executing the SG_IO ioctl on a partition or LVM volume, and
will pass the command to the underlying block device.  This is
well-known, but it is also a large security problem when (via Unix
permissions, ACLs, SELinux or a combination thereof) a program or user
needs to be granted access only to part of the disk.

This patch lets partitions forward a small set of harmless ioctls;
others are logged with printk so that we can see which ioctls are
actually sent.  In my tests only CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY actually occurred.
Of course it was being sent to a (partition on a) hard disk, so it would
have failed with ENOTTY and the patch isn't changing anything in
practice.  Still, I'm treating it specially to avoid spamming the logs.

In principle, this restriction should include programs running with
CAP_SYS_RAWIO.  If for example I let a program access /dev/sda2 and
/dev/sdb, it still should not be able to read/write outside the
boundaries of /dev/sda2 independent of the capabilities.  However, for
now programs with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will still be allowed to send the
ioctls.  Their actions will still be logged.

This patch does not affect the non-libata IDE driver.  That driver
however already tests for bd != bd-&gt;bd_contains before issuing some
ioctl; it could be restricted further to forbid these ioctls even for
programs running with CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[ Make it also print the command name when warning - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl</title>
<updated>2012-01-26T00:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-12T15:01:27+00:00</published>
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commit 577ebb374c78314ac4617242f509e2f5e7156649 upstream.

Introduce a wrapper around scsi_cmd_ioctl that takes a block device.

The function will then be enhanced to detect partition block devices
and, in that case, subject the ioctls to whitelisting.

Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 577ebb374c78314ac4617242f509e2f5e7156649 upstream.

Introduce a wrapper around scsi_cmd_ioctl that takes a block device.

The function will then be enhanced to detect partition block devices
and, in that case, subject the ioctls to whitelisting.

Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] sd: remove arbitrary SD_MAX_DISKS namespace limit</title>
<updated>2011-10-30T08:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Kleikamp</name>
<email>dave.kleikamp@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-19T16:49:04+00:00</published>
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There is no reason to limit the SCSI disk namespace to sdXXX.

Add new error messages to sd_probe() in the unlikely event that either
ida_get_new() or sd_format_disk_name() fail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp &lt;dave.kleikamp@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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There is no reason to limit the SCSI disk namespace to sdXXX.

Add new error messages to sd_probe() in the unlikely event that either
ida_get_new() or sd_format_disk_name() fail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp &lt;dave.kleikamp@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] sd: Use sd_printk() instead of printk()</title>
<updated>2011-08-29T07:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nao Nishijima</name>
<email>nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-25T09:04:14+00:00</published>
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sd_ioctl() still use printk() for log output.
It should use sd_printk() instead of printk(), as well as other sd_*.

All SCSI messages should output via s*_printk() instead of printk().

Signed-off-by: Nao Nishijima &lt;nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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sd_ioctl() still use printk() for log output.
It should use sd_printk() instead of printk(), as well as other sd_*.

All SCSI messages should output via s*_printk() instead of printk().

Signed-off-by: Nao Nishijima &lt;nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page (version 2)</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T16:43:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luben Tuikov</name>
<email>ltuikov@yahoo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T07:00:58+00:00</published>
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Some kernel transport drivers unconditionally disable
retrieval of the Caching mode page. One such for example is
the BBB/CBI transport over USB. Such a restraint is too
harsh as some devices do support the Caching mode
page. Unconditionally enabling the retrieval of this mode
page over those transports at their transport code level may
result in some devices failing and becoming unusable.

This patch implements a method of retrieving the Caching
mode page without unconditionally enabling it in the
transports which unconditionally disable it. The idea is to
ask for all supported pages, page code 0x3F, and then search
for the Caching mode page in the mode parameter data
returned. The sd driver already asks for all the mode pages
supported by the attached device by setting the page code to
0x3F in order to find out if the media is write protected by
reading the WP bit in the Device Specific Parameter
field. It then attempts to retrieve only the Caching mode
page by setting the page code to 8 and actually attempting
to retrieve it if and only if the transport allows it.

The method implemented here is that if the transport doesn't
allow retrieval of the Caching mode page and the device is
not RBC, then we ask for all pages supported by setting the
page code to 0x3F (similarly to how the WP bit is retrieved
above), and then we search for the Caching mode page in the
mode parameter data returned.

With this patch, devices over SATA, report this (no change):

Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

Smart devices report their Caching mode page. This is a
change where we'd previously see the kernel making
assumption about the device's cache being write-through:

Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 610472646 4096-byte logical blocks: (2.50 TB/2.27 TiB)
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA

And "dumb" devices over BBB, are correctly shown not to
support reporting the Caching mode page:

Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 15663104 512-byte logical blocks: (8.01 GB/7.46 GiB)
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

Version 2 adds this:

Some devices don't support page code 0x3F, and others require a
fixed transfer length of 192 bytes. This single commit includes a
patch by Alan Stern which fixes this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Senior &lt;richard@r-senior.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov &lt;ltuikov@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;jbottomley@parallels.com&gt;
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Some kernel transport drivers unconditionally disable
retrieval of the Caching mode page. One such for example is
the BBB/CBI transport over USB. Such a restraint is too
harsh as some devices do support the Caching mode
page. Unconditionally enabling the retrieval of this mode
page over those transports at their transport code level may
result in some devices failing and becoming unusable.

This patch implements a method of retrieving the Caching
mode page without unconditionally enabling it in the
transports which unconditionally disable it. The idea is to
ask for all supported pages, page code 0x3F, and then search
for the Caching mode page in the mode parameter data
returned. The sd driver already asks for all the mode pages
supported by the attached device by setting the page code to
0x3F in order to find out if the media is write protected by
reading the WP bit in the Device Specific Parameter
field. It then attempts to retrieve only the Caching mode
page by setting the page code to 8 and actually attempting
to retrieve it if and only if the transport allows it.

The method implemented here is that if the transport doesn't
allow retrieval of the Caching mode page and the device is
not RBC, then we ask for all pages supported by setting the
page code to 0x3F (similarly to how the WP bit is retrieved
above), and then we search for the Caching mode page in the
mode parameter data returned.

With this patch, devices over SATA, report this (no change):

Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

Smart devices report their Caching mode page. This is a
change where we'd previously see the kernel making
assumption about the device's cache being write-through:

Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 610472646 4096-byte logical blocks: (2.50 TB/2.27 TiB)
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
Oct 22 18:45:58 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA

And "dumb" devices over BBB, are correctly shown not to
support reporting the Caching mode page:

Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 15663104 512-byte logical blocks: (8.01 GB/7.46 GiB)
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
Oct 22 18:49:06 localhost kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

Version 2 adds this:

Some devices don't support page code 0x3F, and others require a
fixed transfer length of 192 bytes. This single commit includes a
patch by Alan Stern which fixes this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Senior &lt;richard@r-senior.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov &lt;ltuikov@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;jbottomley@parallels.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] sd: Unmap discard alignment needs to be converted to bytes</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T16:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-18T04:31:07+00:00</published>
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The block layer discard alignment is reported in bytes, not in units of
the logical block size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;jbottomley@parallels.com&gt;
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The block layer discard alignment is reported in bytes, not in units of
the logical block size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;jbottomley@parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page"</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T17:53:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>James.Bottomley@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T14:58:28+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 24d720b726c1a85f1962831ac30ad4d2ef8276b1.

Previously we thought there was little possibility that devices would
crash with this, but some have been found.

Reported-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Luben Tuikov &lt;ltuikov@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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This reverts commit 24d720b726c1a85f1962831ac30ad4d2ef8276b1.

Previously we thought there was little possibility that devices would
crash with this, but some have been found.

Reported-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Luben Tuikov &lt;ltuikov@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sd: Fail discard requests when logical block provisioning has been disabled</title>
<updated>2011-03-22T16:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T04:27:42+00:00</published>
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Ensure that we kill discard requests after logical block provisioning
has been disabled in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Ensure that we kill discard requests after logical block provisioning
has been disabled in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update</title>
<updated>2011-03-14T23:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-08T07:07:15+00:00</published>
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SBC3r26 contains many changes to the Logical Block Provisioning
interfaces (formerly known as Thin Provisioning ditto). This patch
implements support for both the old and new schemes using the same
heuristic as before (whether the LBP VPD page is present).

The new code also allows the provisioning mode (i.e. choice of command)
to be overridden on a per-device basis via sysfs. Two additional modes
are supported in this version:

 - WRITE SAME(10) with the UNMAP bit set

 - WRITE SAME(10) without the UNMAP bit set. This allows us to support
   devices that predate the TP/LBP enhancements in SBC3 and which work
   by way zero-detection

Switching between modes has been consolidated in a helper function that
also updates the block layer topology according to the limitations of
the chosen command.

I experimented with trying WRITE SAME(16) if UNMAP fails, WRITE SAME(10)
if WRITE SAME(16) fails, etc. but found several devices that got
cranky. So for now we'll disable discard if one of the commands
fail. The user still has the option of selecting a different mode in
sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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SBC3r26 contains many changes to the Logical Block Provisioning
interfaces (formerly known as Thin Provisioning ditto). This patch
implements support for both the old and new schemes using the same
heuristic as before (whether the LBP VPD page is present).

The new code also allows the provisioning mode (i.e. choice of command)
to be overridden on a per-device basis via sysfs. Two additional modes
are supported in this version:

 - WRITE SAME(10) with the UNMAP bit set

 - WRITE SAME(10) without the UNMAP bit set. This allows us to support
   devices that predate the TP/LBP enhancements in SBC3 and which work
   by way zero-detection

Switching between modes has been consolidated in a helper function that
also updates the block layer topology according to the limitations of
the chosen command.

I experimented with trying WRITE SAME(16) if UNMAP fails, WRITE SAME(10)
if WRITE SAME(16) fails, etc. but found several devices that got
cranky. So for now we'll disable discard if one of the commands
fail. The user still has the option of selecting a different mode in
sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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