Roman,

> WRITE SAME corrupts data on the block device behind iblock if the
> command is emulated. The emulation code issues (M - 1) * N times more
> bios than requested, where M is the number of 512 blocks per real
> block size and N is the NUMBER OF LOGICAL BLOCKS specified in WRITE
> SAME command. So, for a device with 4k blocks, 7 * N more LBAs gets
> written after the requested range.
>
> The issue happens because the number of 512 byte sectors to be written
> is decreased one by one while the real bios are typically from 1 to 8
> 512 byte sectors per bio.

Applied to 5.2/scsi-fixes, thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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