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libata: add ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_1024 to revert back to previous max_sectors limit
authorDavid Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:48:23 +0000 (11:48 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:29:04 +0000 (09:29 -0700)
commit3b1c86a973f2e665c1697d965e459bf1b6713825
treeb8d133bcac7f4a76b36f33d15d04620153c51f59
parent54150eb4cde1b758d788045d3ddc7ee336ce3d6d
libata: add ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_1024 to revert back to previous max_sectors limit

commit af34d637637eabaf49406eb35c948cd51ba262a6 upstream.

Since no longer limiting max_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS (commit 34b48db66e08),
data corruption may occur on ST380013AS drive configured on 82801JI (ICH10 Family)
SATA controller. This patch will allow the driver to limit max_sectors as before

 # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_sectors_kb
 512

I was able to double the max_sectors_kb value up to 16384 on linux-4.2.0-rc2
before seeing corruption, but seems safer to use previous limit. Without this
patch max_sectors_kb will be 32767.

tj: Minor comment update.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 34b48db66e08 ("block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/ata/libata-core.c
include/linux/ata.h
include/linux/libata.h