Bug 1021788 – the error message "scsi generic interface too old" is wrong more often than not

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Bug 1021788 - the error message "scsi generic interface too old" is wrong more often than not

Summary:	the error message "scsi generic interface too old" is wrong more often than not

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	qemu-kvm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	low Severity low
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Fam Zheng
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On:	1021785
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Reported:	2013-10-22 02:16 EDT by Sibiao Luo
Modified:	2015-03-05 03:01 EST (History)
CC List:	13 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:	1021785
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Last Closed:	2015-03-05 03:01:50 EST
Type:	Bug
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0349	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2015-03-05 07:27:34 EST

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Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2013-10-24 19:16:53 EDT

The command line is incorrect, so I am changing the subject.

Comment 3 Ademar Reis 2014-05-28 13:55:51 EDT

Fam has posted a patch upstream:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-04/msg02404.html

Comment 4 Miroslav Rezanina 2014-07-09 08:17:38 EDT

Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7

Comment 5 FuXiangChun 2014-08-06 03:09:26 EDT

reproduced this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-60.el7.x86_64 & 3.10.0-140.el7.x86_64

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

QEMU 1.5.3 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: scsi-block: scsi generic interface too old
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized

verify bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-66.el7.x86_64 on AMD host.

result:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: cannot get SG_IO version number: Operation not supported.  Is this a SCSI device?
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized

Verify bug with qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.0-3.el7ev.preview.x86_64 on Intel host.

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -smp 2 -m 4G  -monitor stdio -drive file=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.8.240:3260-iscsi-iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz-lun-2,format=raw,aio=native,snapshot=on,id=drive-data-disk,if=none -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0 -net none -vnc :10

QEMU 2.0.92 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: cannot get SG_IO version number: Operation not supported.  Is this a SCSI device?
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device initialization failed.
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0: Device 'scsi-block' could not be initialized


Fam,

Can you have a look at this test result?  Is it expect?

Comment 6 Fam Zheng 2014-08-06 06:43:01 EDT

Yes.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 03:01:50 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html

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