Bug#878216: Bug relating linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.48-1_amd64.deb and hyper-v gen2 vm

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 08:45:14 +0000, Cristiano Casella wrote:

> Upgrading our vm with Debian 8 (also just installed) to last version of linux-image package (linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.48-1_amd64.deb) the virtual machines can't boot anymore.
> 
> 
> I attached to this email the two kind of error that we can get in the console.
> 
> 
> Looking at the changelog (https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/l/linux/changelog-3.16.48-1) I suspect that this changes could be involved in this bug:
> 
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>     - [x86] scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device
>     - [x86] scsi: storvsc: Fix a bug in the handling of SRB status flags
>     - [x86] scsi: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is
>       present
>     - [x86] scsi: storvsc: properly set residual data length on errors
> 
> We can provide you all test environments needed or proceede with your support for a kernel bisect to find the specific error.
> 
If you could bisect between 3.16.43 and 3.16.48, that would be most
helpful.

Thanks,
Julien