This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nvme-pci: add quirk for delay before CHK RDY for WDC SN200

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: nvme-pci-add-quirk-for-delay-before-chk-rdy-for-wdc-sn200.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 8c97eeccf0ad8783c057830119467b877bdfced7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jeff Lien jeff.lien@wdc.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:44:37 -0600 Subject: nvme-pci: add quirk for delay before CHK RDY for WDC SN200

From: Jeff Lien jeff.lien@wdc.com

commit 8c97eeccf0ad8783c057830119467b877bdfced7 upstream.

And increase the existing delay to cover this device as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Lien jeff.lien@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ enum nvme_quirks { * NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_BEFORE_CHK_RDY quirk enabled. The value (in ms) was * found empirically. */ -#define NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_AMOUNT 2000 +#define NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_AMOUNT 2300

enum nvme_ctrl_state { NVME_CTRL_NEW, --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c @@ -2109,6 +2109,8 @@ static const struct pci_device_id nvme_i .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_IDENTIFY_CNS, }, { PCI_DEVICE(0x1c58, 0x0003), /* HGST adapter */ .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_BEFORE_CHK_RDY, }, + { PCI_DEVICE(0x1c58, 0x0023), /* WDC SN200 adapter */ + .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_BEFORE_CHK_RDY, }, { PCI_DEVICE(0x1c5f, 0x0540), /* Memblaze Pblaze4 adapter */ .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_DELAY_BEFORE_CHK_RDY, }, { PCI_DEVICE_CLASS(PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_EXPRESS, 0xffffff) },

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeff.lien@wdc.com are

queue-4.9/nvme-pci-add-quirk-for-delay-before-chk-rdy-for-wdc-sn200.patch