diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
index 7c3eccbdd39f..d2fb28212880 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
@@ -1872,6 +1872,80 @@ bool scsi_noretry_cmd(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
 	return false;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scsi_check_passthrough - Determine if passthrough scsi_cmnd needs a retry.
+ * @scmd: scsi_cmnd to check.
+ *
+ * Return value:
+ *	SCSI_RETURN_NOT_HANDLED - if the caller should examine the command
+ *	status because the passthrough user wanted the default error processing.
+ *	SUCCESS, FAILED or NEEDS_RETRY - if this function has determined the
+ *	command should be completed, go through the error handler due to
+ *	missing sense or should be retried.
+ */
+static enum scsi_disposition scsi_check_passthrough(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
+{
+	struct scsi_failure *failure;
+	struct scsi_sense_hdr sshdr;
+	enum scsi_disposition ret;
+	enum sam_status status;
+
+	if (!scmd->failures)
+		return SCSI_RETURN_NOT_HANDLED;
+
+	for (failure = scmd->failures; failure->result; failure++) {
+		if (failure->result == SCMD_FAILURE_RESULT_ANY)
+			goto maybe_retry;
+
+		if (host_byte(scmd->result) &&
+		    host_byte(scmd->result) == host_byte(failure->result))
+			goto maybe_retry;
+
+		status = status_byte(scmd->result);
+		if (!status)
+			continue;
+
+		if (failure->result == SCMD_FAILURE_STAT_ANY &&
+		    !scsi_status_is_good(scmd->result))
+			goto maybe_retry;
+
+		if (status != status_byte(failure->result))
+			continue;
+
+		if (status_byte(failure->result) != SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION ||
+		    failure->sense == SCMD_FAILURE_SENSE_ANY)
+			goto maybe_retry;
+
+		ret = scsi_start_sense_processing(scmd, &sshdr);
+		if (ret == NEEDS_RETRY)
+			goto maybe_retry;
+		else if (ret != SUCCESS)
+			return ret;
+
+		if (failure->sense != sshdr.sense_key)
+			continue;
+
+		if (failure->asc == SCMD_FAILURE_ASC_ANY)
+			goto maybe_retry;
+
+		if (failure->asc != sshdr.asc)
+			continue;
+
+		if (failure->ascq == SCMD_FAILURE_ASCQ_ANY ||
+		    failure->ascq == sshdr.ascq)
+			goto maybe_retry;
+	}
+
+	return SCSI_RETURN_NOT_HANDLED;
+
+maybe_retry:
+	if (failure->allowed == SCMD_FAILURE_NO_LIMIT ||
+	    ++failure->retries <= failure->allowed)
+		return NEEDS_RETRY;
+
+	return SUCCESS;
+}
+
 /**
  * scsi_decide_disposition - Disposition a cmd on return from LLD.
  * @scmd:	SCSI cmd to examine.
@@ -1900,6 +1974,12 @@ enum scsi_disposition scsi_decide_disposition(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
 		return SUCCESS;
 	}
 
+	if (scmd->result && blk_rq_is_passthrough(scsi_cmd_to_rq(scmd))) {
+		rtn = scsi_check_passthrough(scmd);
+		if (rtn != SCSI_RETURN_NOT_HANDLED)
+			return rtn;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * first check the host byte, to see if there is anything in there
 	 * that would indicate what we need to do.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index ca5eb058d5c7..7c3e18663c64 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -184,6 +184,15 @@ void scsi_queue_insert(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, int reason)
 	__scsi_queue_insert(cmd, reason, true);
 }
 
+void scsi_reset_failures(struct scsi_failure *failures)
+{
+	struct scsi_failure *failure;
+
+	for (failure = failures; failure->result; failure++)
+		failure->retries = 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_reset_failures);
+
 /**
  * scsi_execute_cmd - insert request and wait for the result
  * @sdev:	scsi_device
@@ -1129,6 +1138,7 @@ static void scsi_initialize_rq(struct request *rq)
 	init_rcu_head(&cmd->rcu);
 	cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies;
 	cmd->retries = 0;
+	cmd->failures = NULL;
 }
 
 struct request *scsi_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, blk_opf_t opf,
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
index 526def14e7fb..0dc937511f2b 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
@@ -71,6 +71,38 @@ enum scsi_cmnd_submitter {
 	SUBMITTED_BY_SCSI_RESET_IOCTL = 2,
 } __packed;
 
+/*
+ * scsi_execute_cmd users can set scsi_failure.result to have
+ * scsi_check_passthrough fail/retry a command. scsi_failure.result can be a
+ * specific host byte or message code, or SCMD_FAILURE_RESULT_ANY can be used
+ * to match any host or message code.
+ */
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_RESULT_ANY	0x7fffffff
+/*
+ * Set scsi_failure.result to SCMD_FAILURE_STAT_ANY to fail/retry any failure
+ * scsi_status_is_good returns false for.
+ */
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_STAT_ANY	0xff
+/*
+ * The following can be set to the scsi_failure sense, asc and ascq fields to
+ * match on any sense, ASC, or ASCQ value.
+ */
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_SENSE_ANY	0xff
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_ASC_ANY	0xff
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_ASCQ_ANY	0xff
+/* Always retry a matching failure. */
+#define SCMD_FAILURE_NO_LIMIT	-1
+
+struct scsi_failure {
+	int result;
+	u8 sense;
+	u8 asc;
+	u8 ascq;
+
+	s8 allowed;
+	s8 retries;
+};
+
 struct scsi_cmnd {
 	struct scsi_device *device;
 	struct list_head eh_entry; /* entry for the host eh_abort_list/eh_cmd_q */
@@ -91,6 +123,8 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
 
 	int retries;
 	int allowed;
+	/* optional array of failures that passthrough users want retried */
+	struct scsi_failure *failures;
 
 	unsigned char prot_op;
 	unsigned char prot_type;
@@ -394,5 +428,6 @@ extern void scsi_build_sense(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd, int desc,
 
 struct request *scsi_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, blk_opf_t opf,
 				   blk_mq_req_flags_t flags);
+void scsi_reset_failures(struct scsi_failure *failures);
 
 #endif /* _SCSI_SCSI_CMND_H */
