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[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tested 3.13.0-34 for 24 hours and it did not exhibit the bug.  This
would indicate the bug was introduce between -34 and -35.  There are
only three commits between these two versions:

c8c38b3 Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the channel callback dispatch code
7af024a hv: use correct order when freeing monitor_pages
6ad4874 Drivers: hv: balloon: Ensure pressure reports are posted regularly


None are storage specific and stick out as the cause.  It could have possible been caused by either of the connection commits.  I think the only way to be sure is to bisect between -34 and -35 specifically against the drivers/hv directory.  This would only require two bisect tests, then a final test with the suspect commit reverted.  I'll do this next and post the results.

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Title:
  [Hyper-V] Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Generation 2 SCSI Errors on VSS Based
  Backups

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Vivid:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Wily:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Customers have reported running various versions of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
  on Generation 2 Hyper-V Hosts.    On a random Basis, the file system
  will be mounted Read-Only due to a "disk error" (which really isn't
  the case here).    As a result, they must reboot the Ubuntu guest to
  get the file system to mount RW again.

  The Error seen are the following:
  Apr 30 00:02:01 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [640153.968142] storvsc: Sense Key : Unit Attention [current] 
  Apr 30 00:02:01 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [640153.968145] storvsc: Add. Sense: Changed operating definition
  Apr 30 00:02:01 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [640153.968161] sd 0:0:0:0: Warning! Received an indication that the operating parameters on this target have changed. The Linux SCSI layer does not automatically adjust these parameters.
  Apr 30 01:23:26 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [645039.584164] hv_storvsc vmbus_0_4: cmd 0x2a scsi status 0x2 srb status 0x82
  Apr 30 01:23:26 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [645039.584178] hv_storvsc vmbus_0_4: stor pkt ffff88006eb6c700 autosense data valid - len 18
  Apr 30 01:23:26 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [645039.584180] storvsc: Sense Key : Unit Attention [current] 
  Apr 30 01:23:26 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [645039.584183] storvsc: Add. Sense: Changed operating definition
  Apr 30 01:23:26 balticnetworkstraining kernel: [645039.584198] sd 0:0:0:0: Warning! Received an indication that the operating parameters on this target have changed.  The Linux SCSI layer does not automatically adjust these parameters.

  This relates to the VSS "Windows Server Backup" process that kicks off at midnight on the host and finishes an hour and half later.   
  Yes, we do have hv_vss_daemon and hv_kvp_daemon running for the correct kernel version we have.   We're currently running kernel version 3.13.0-49-generic #83 on one system and 3.16.0-34-generic #37 on the other. -- We see the same errors on both.
  As a result, we've been hesitant to drop any more ubuntu guests on our 2012R2 hyper-v system because of this.   We can stop the backup process and all is good, but we need nightly backups to image all of our VM's.   All the windows guests have no issues of course.   We also have some CentOS based guests running without issues from what we've seen.

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