connection_broken(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

connection_broken — Determine if the connection to the client is good. This tiny icon is straight from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s literally here to answer the “bestie, is the connection to the client good or not?” question 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool connection_broken (struct scsi_info *vscsi );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• vscsi — Pointer to our adapter structure, bestie. That’s the whole argument vibe 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so the move here: this function attempts to send a ping MAD to the client. If the call to queue the request returns H_CLOSED, then the connection has been broken and the function returns TRUE. Periodt. 💅🔥

EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT: Interrupt or Process environment 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

If you wanna fall down the whole ibmvscsi_tgt rabbit hole, here’s the friend group 💖:

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c
• ibmvscsis_unregister_command_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_delete_client_info(9)
• ibmvscsis_free_command_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_cmd_q_dequeue(9)
• ibmvscsis_send_init_message(9)
• ibmvscsis_check_init_msg(9)
• ibmvscsis_disconnect(9)
• ibmvscsis_post_disconnect(9)
• ibmvscsis_handle_init_compl_msg(9)
• ibmvscsis_handle_init_msg(9)
• ibmvscsis_init_msg(9)
• ibmvscsis_establish_new_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_reset_queue(9)
• ibmvscsis_free_cmd_resources(9)
• ibmvscsis_ready_for_suspend(9)
• ibmvscsis_trans_event(9)
• ibmvscsis_poll_cmd_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_free_cmd_qs(9)
• ibmvscsis_get_free_cmd(9)
• ibmvscsis_adapter_idle(9)
• ibmvscsis_copy_crq_packet(9)
• ibmvscsis_adapter_info(9)
• ibmvscsis_cap_mad(9)
• ibmvscsis_process_mad(9)
• srp_snd_msg_failed(9)
• ibmvscsis_send_messages(9)
• ibmvscsis_mad(9)
• ibmvscsis_login_rsp(9)
• ibmvscsis_srp_login_rej(9)
• ibmvscsis_srp_login(9)
• ibmvscsis_srp_i_logout(9)
• ibmvscsis_ping_response(9)
• ibmvscsis_parse_command(9)
• ibmvscsis_parse_cmd(9)
• ibmvscsis_parse_task(9)
• ibmvscsis_service_wait_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_enable_change_state(9)
• ibmvscsis_create_command_q(9)
• ibmvscsis_destroy_command_q(9)
• srp_build_response(9)
• ibmvscsis_handle_crq(9)

This page’s source/version is ./drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt, it’s dated October 2026, and yes it’s connection_broken(9) — stay iconic, bestie 🫶💖