This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    SCSI: sd: don't fail if the device doesn't recognize SYNCHRONIZE CACHE

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-sd-don-t-fail-if-the-device-doesn-t-recognize-synchronize-cache.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 7aae51347b21eb738dc1981df1365b57a6c5ee4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:37:04 -0500
Subject: SCSI: sd: don't fail if the device doesn't recognize SYNCHRONIZE CACHE

From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>

commit 7aae51347b21eb738dc1981df1365b57a6c5ee4e upstream.

Evidently some wacky USB-ATA bridges don't recognize the SYNCHRONIZE
CACHE command, as shown in this email thread:

        http://marc.info/?t=138978356200002&r=1&w=2

The fact that we can't tell them to drain their caches shouldn't
prevent the system from going into suspend.  Therefore sd_sync_cache()
shouldn't return an error if the device replies with an Invalid
Command ASC.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sven Neumann <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Mack <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1463,8 +1463,8 @@ static int sd_sync_cache(struct scsi_dis
                        sd_print_sense_hdr(sdkp, &sshdr);
                /* we need to evaluate the error return  */
                if (scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr) &&
-                       /* 0x3a is medium not present */
-                       sshdr.asc == 0x3a)
+                       (sshdr.asc == 0x3a ||   /* medium not present */
+                        sshdr.asc == 0x20))    /* invalid command */
                                /* this is no error here */
                                return 0;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.14/scsi-sd-don-t-fail-if-the-device-doesn-t-recognize-synchronize-cache.patch
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