->queuecommand must return either 0, or one of the SCSI_MLQUEUE_* return values. Non-transient errors are indicated by setting cmd->result before calling ->scsi_done and returning 0. Fix libsas to adhere to this calling convention. Note that the DID_ERROR for returns from the low-level driver might not be correct for all cases, but it's the best we can do with the current layering in libsas. I also suspect that the pre-existing handling of -SAS_QUEUE_FULL should really be SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY, but I'll leave that for a separate change. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c 2011-07-11 20:25:25.529428978 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c 2011-07-11 20:29:22.321479498 +0200 @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int sas_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host *h task = sas_create_task(cmd, dev, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!task) - return -ENOMEM; + return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY; /* Queue up, Direct Mode or Task Collector Mode. */ if (sas_ha->lldd_max_execute_num < 2) @@ -223,9 +223,10 @@ out_free_task: SAS_DPRINTK("lldd_execute_task returned: %d\n", res); ASSIGN_SAS_TASK(cmd, NULL); sas_free_task(task); - if (res != -SAS_QUEUE_FULL) - return res; - cmd->result = DID_SOFT_ERROR << 16; /* retry */ + if (res = -SAS_QUEUE_FULL) + cmd->result = DID_SOFT_ERROR << 16; /* retry */ + else + cmd->result = DID_ERROR << 16; out_done: cmd->scsi_done(cmd); return 0;