scsi: core: alua: I/O errors for ALUA state transitions

When a host is configured with a few LUNs and I/O is running, injecting FC
faults repeatedly leads to path recovery problems.  The LUNs have 4 paths
each and 3 of them come back active after say an FC fault which makes 2 of
the paths go down, instead of all 4. This happens after several iterations
of continuous FC faults.

Reason here is that we're returning an I/O error whenever we're
encountering sense code 06/04/0a (LOGICAL UNIT NOT ACCESSIBLE, ASYMMETRIC
ACCESS STATE TRANSITION) instead of retrying.

[mwilck: The original patch was developed by Rajashekhar M A and Hannes
Reinecke. I moved the code to alua_check_sense() as suggested by Mike
Christie [1]. Evan Milne had raised the question whether pg->state should
be set to transitioning in the UA case [2]. I believe that doing this is
correct. SCSI_ACCESS_STATE_TRANSITIONING by itself doesn't cause I/O
errors. Our handler schedules an RTPG, which will only result in an I/O
error condition if the transitioning timeout expires.]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0bc96e82-fdda-4187-148d-5b34f81d4942@oracle.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGtn9r=kicnTDE2o7Gt5Y=yoidHYD7tG8XdMHEBJTBraVEoOCw@mail.gmail.com/

Co-developed-by: Rajashekhar M A <rajs@netapp.com>
Co-developed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240514140344.19538-1-mwilck@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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