From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schub...@itwm.fraunhofer.de>

Somehow older areca firmware versions have issues with 
scsi_get_vpd_page() and a large buffer, the firmware
seems to crash and the scsi error-handler will start endless 
recovery retries.
Limiting the buf-size to 64-bytes fixes this issue with older
firmware versions (<1.49 for my controller).

Fixes a regression with areca controllers and older firmware versions
introduced by commit: 66c28f97120e8a621afd5aa7a31c4b85c547d33d

Reported-by: Nix <n...@esperi.org.uk>
Tested-by: Nix <n...@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schub...@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
CC: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>

---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index b58e8f8..09a599f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -2644,13 +2644,16 @@ static void sd_read_write_same(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, 
unsigned char *buffer)
        struct scsi_device *sdev = sdkp->device;
 
        if (scsi_report_opcode(sdev, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE, INQUIRY) < 0) {
+               /* too large values might cause issues with arcmsr */
+               int vpd_buf_len = 64;
+
                sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1;
 
                /* Disable WRITE SAME if REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION
                 * CODES is unsupported and the device has an ATA
                 * Information VPD page (SAT).
                 */
-               if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE))
+               if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, vpd_buf_len))
                        sdev->no_write_same = 1;
        }
 
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