target: Change default sense key of NOT_READY

As the comment sais, this allows Solaris initiators to survive
intermittent errors.  The comment from someone reading the Solaris
sources seem to imply that multipathing would be broken without this
patch as well.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Brian Bunker <brian@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
index 3243ea790eab..493e9e589059 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -2765,8 +2765,13 @@ transport_send_check_condition_and_sense(struct se_cmd *cmd,
                 /* CURRENT ERROR */
                 buffer[0] = 0x70;
                 buffer[SPC_ADD_SENSE_LEN_OFFSET] = 10;
-                /* ILLEGAL REQUEST */
-                buffer[SPC_SENSE_KEY_OFFSET] = ILLEGAL_REQUEST;
+                /*
+                 * Returning ILLEGAL REQUEST would cause immediate IO errors on
+                 * Solaris initiators.  Returning NOT READY instead means the
+                 * operations will be retried a finite number of times and we
+                 * can survive intermittent errors.
+                 */
+                buffer[SPC_SENSE_KEY_OFFSET] = NOT_READY;
                 /* LOGICAL UNIT COMMUNICATION FAILURE */
                 buffer[SPC_ASC_KEY_OFFSET] = 0x08;
                 break;