Erroneous sense key warnings on SAS SSD

Mastsrl

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Hello,
i've just installed PVE 8.3 on a Dell R730 with several SAS SSDs and i've noticed the following erroneous warnings on kernel log for every drive:
Code:
[ 2038.529350] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdd] tag#104 Sense Key : Recovered Error [current]
[ 2038.529400] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdd] tag#104 Add. Sense: Grown defect list not found
That repeats everytime proxmox reads the smart status via smartctl, which also makes the "Non-medium error count" of the drives increase by 1.

Googling for this i've seen these errors being reported as far back as 5+ years ago, there are some workarounds that require manual patching of smartctl files and re-compiling:
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1448

https://pv-tech.eu/posts/smartctl-causing-errors-in-dmesg-with-sas-ssd-drives/

Since it seems the issue has been abandoned by the smartmontools team, any chance of being done by proxmox?, recompiling the smartmontool in vpe is a little bit outside my expertise

Also i've noticed that the smartctl version included in PVE is ancient (7.3) when 7.4 has been out since AUGUST of 2023(but the changelog of 7.4 makes no mention of this bug so it would not make a difference for this)...