Public bug reported:

tested the latest xenial iso on a file server featuring an ARC-1882ix-24
RAID controller, and got weird timeout issues, followed by complete loss
of access to anything connected to the RAID controller. The timeouts
occur after a random amount of uptime (sometimes minutes, sometimes
days), for example:

kernel: [1665409.969229] arcmsr2: abort device command of scsi id = 0 lun = 1
kernel: [1665411.727535] arcmsr2: scsi id = 0 lun = 1 ccb = 
'0xffff884fe008e780' poll command abort successfully
kernel: [1665411.727885] arcmsr2: abort device command of scsi id = 0 lun = 1
kernel: [1665411.727898] arcmsr2: abort device command of scsi id = 0 lun = 1
kernel: [1665413.138235] arcmsr2: scsi id = 0 lun = 1 ccb = 
'0xffff884fe0012300' poll command abort successfully
...
kernel: [1665445.804546] arcmsr: executing bus reset eh.....num_resets = 2, 
num_aborts = 146
kernel: [1665455.851353] arcmsr2: pCCB ='0xffff884fe002a700' isr got aborted 
command
kernel: [1665455.851366] arcmsr2: pCCB ='0xffff884fe01c0a00' isr got aborted 
command
kernel: [1665455.851373] arcmsr2: isr get an illegal ccb command 
#011#011#011#011done acb = '0xffff884fe0b8c798'ccb = '0xffff884fe00e9680' 
ccbacb = '0xffff884fe0b8c798' startdone = 0x0 ccboutstandingcount = -1
kernel: [1665455.851378] arcmsr2: isr get an illegal ccb command 
#011#011#011#011done acb = '0xffff884fe0b8c798'ccb = '0xffff884fe0070280' 
ccbacb = '0xffff884fe0b8c798' startdone = 0x0 ccboutstandingcount = -1
...
kernel: [1665455.852655] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] Medium access timeout failure. 
Offlining disk!
kernel: [1665455.890032] sd 2:0:0:4: [sde] Medium access timeout failure. 
Offlining disk!
kernel: [1665455.926613] sd 2:0:0:1: [sdb] Medium access timeout failure. 
Offlining disk!
kernel: [1665455.963288] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdc] Medium access timeout failure. 
Offlining disk!


some digging revealed that mainline 4.4 as well as xenial's 4.4.0-14-generic 
still feature an old, buggy arcmsr driver  v1.30.00.04-20140919, which claims 
to "supports" the 1882, but does not really...

Areca seems to have managed to get a fixed driver into mainline 4.5
(version v1.30.00.22-20151126), and it seems to be a small patch on
arcmsr.h and a large one on arcmsr_hba.c, and upon a first glance, I
didn't see anything 4.5-specific in the code:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.h?id=v4.5&id2=v4.4
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c?id=v4.5&id2=v4.4

Note that we are using v1.30.0X.21-20151016 (as provided by
Areca.com.tw) on productive 14.04.4 LTS servers featuring ARC1882
controllers, so chances are good that version 22 (as included in 4.5
mainline) to work well.

This would not only allow ARC-188x controllers to work properly with
Xenial out-of-the-box, it should also add support for the (somewhat
popular?) ARC-1203 series

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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