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

scsi: qla2xxx: Remove aborting ELS IOCB call issued as part of timeout.

to the 4.14-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: scsi-qla2xxx-remove-aborting-els-iocb-call-issued-as-part-of-timeout.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 bf07ef86e882013522876f7c834c8eea085f35b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Giridhar Malavali giridhar.malavali@cavium.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:45:14 -0800 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Remove aborting ELS IOCB call issued as part of timeout.

From: Giridhar Malavali giridhar.malavali@cavium.com

commit bf07ef86e882013522876f7c834c8eea085f35b4 upstream.

This fix the spinlock recursion issue seen while unloading the driver.

14 [ffff9f2e21e03db8] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath at ffffffffad0d8802 15 [ffff9f2e21e03dc0] do_raw_spin_lock at ffffffffad0d99e4 16 [ffff9f2e21e03dd8] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave at ffffffffad652471 17 [ffff9f2e21e03e00] qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout at ffffffffc070cd63 18 [ffff9f2e21e03e40] qla2x00_sp_timeout at ffffffffc06f06d3 [qla2xxx] 19 [ffff9f2e21e03e68] call_timer_fn at ffffffffad0f97d8 20 [ffff9f2e21e03ed8] run_timer_softirq at ffffffffad0faf47 21 [ffff9f2e21e03f68] __softirqentry_text_start at ffffffffad655f32

Fixes: 6eb54715b54bb ("qla2xxx: Added interface to send explicit LOGO.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10+ Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali giridhar.malavali@cavium.com Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani himanshu.madhani@cavium.com Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c @@ -2392,7 +2392,6 @@ qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout(void *data srb_t *sp = data; fc_port_t *fcport = sp->fcport; struct scsi_qla_host *vha = sp->vha; - struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw; struct srb_iocb *lio = &sp->u.iocb_cmd;

ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3069, @@ -2400,15 +2399,6 @@ qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout(void *data sp->name, sp->handle, fcport->d_id.b.domain, fcport->d_id.b.area, fcport->d_id.b.al_pa);

- /* Abort the exchange */ - if (ha->isp_ops->abort_command(sp)) { - ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3070, - "mbx abort_command failed.\n"); - } else { - ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3071, - "mbx abort_command success.\n"); - } - complete(&lio->u.els_logo.comp); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from giridhar.malavali@cavium.com are

queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-defer-processing-of-gs-iocb-calls.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-remove-aborting-els-iocb-call-issued-as-part-of-timeout.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-in-qlt_plogi_ack_unref.patch