scsi_try_to_abort_cmd(9)

💅 scsi_try_to_abort_cmd(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie ✨

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, a SCSI command is being a whole mess, and you just need somebody to ask the host to abort it. That's this function. It's giving "hey bestie, can you handle this for me" energy 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

scsi_try_to_abort_cmd — ask the host to abort a SCSI command. That's it. That's the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

enum scsi_disposition scsi_try_to_abort_cmd (const struct
scsi_host_template *hostt , struct scsi_cmnd *scmd );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hostt — the SCSI driver host template 💖 like, the whole personality of your host right here.
• scmd — the SCSI cmd used to send a target reset. Yes bestie, that one.

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Return value: SUCCESS, FAILED, or FAST_IO_FAIL. Three little icons, one function, and you gotta know which one you're getting 👑

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💀 NOTES 💀

Okay this part is lowkey the most important, so pay attention 🙈

SUCCESS does not necessarily indicate that the command has been aborted — it only indicates that the LLDDs has cleared all references to that command. Like, don't @ me, that's just what it means 💅

LLDDs should return FAILED only if an abort was required but could not be executed. No cap.

LLDDs should return FAST_IO_FAIL if the device is temporarily unavailable (eg due to a link down on FibreChannel). Temporarily!! Unavailable!! It's giving flaky connection energy 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c — go read it, it's iconic 👑

• scsi_schedule_eh(9)
• scmd_eh_abort_handler(9)
• scsi_abort_command(9)
• scsi_eh_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_scmd_add(9)
• scsi_timeout(9)
• scsi_block_when_processing_errors(9)
• scsi_eh_prt_fail_stats(9)
• scsi_report_sense(9)
• scsi_check_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_completed_normally(9)
• scsi_eh_done(9)
• scsi_try_host_reset(9)
• scsi_try_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_try_target_reset(9)
• scsi_try_bus_device_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_prep_cmnd(9)
• scsi_eh_restore_cmnd(9)
• scsi_send_eh_cmnd(9)
• scsi_request_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_finish_cmd(9)
• scsi_eh_get_sense(9)
• scsi_eh_tur(9)
• scsi_eh_test_devices(9)
• scsi_eh_try_stu(9)
• scsi_eh_bus_device_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_target_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_host_reset(9)
• scsi_eh_offline_sdevs(9)
• scsi_noretry_cmd(9)
• scsi_decide_disposition(9)
• scsi_eh_lock_door(9)
• scsi_restart_operations(9)
• scsi_eh_ready_devs(9)
• scsi_eh_flush_done_q(9)
• scsi_unjam_host(9)
• scsi_error_handler(9)
• scsi_report_bus_reset(9)
• scsi_report_device_reset(9)
• scsi_ioctl_reset(9)
• scsi_get_sense_info_fld(9)

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Okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓 This little gem lives in ./drivers/scsi and the version date on it is October 2026 — so yeah, mark your calendar, mwah 💜