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

scsi: qla2xxx: Replace fcport alloc with qla2x00_alloc_fcport

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-replace-fcport-alloc-with-qla2x00_alloc_fcport.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 063b36d6b0ad74c748d536f5cb47bac2f850a0fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:45:10 -0800 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Replace fcport alloc with qla2x00_alloc_fcport

From: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com

commit 063b36d6b0ad74c748d536f5cb47bac2f850a0fa upstream.

Current code manually allocate an fcport structure that is not properly initialize. Replace kzalloc with qla2x00_alloc_fcport, so that all fields are initialized. Also set set scan flag to port found

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@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_target.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c @@ -5759,7 +5759,7 @@ static fc_port_t *qlt_get_port_database( unsigned long flags; u8 newfcport = 0;

- fcport = kzalloc(sizeof(*fcport), GFP_KERNEL); + fcport = qla2x00_alloc_fcport(vha, GFP_KERNEL); if (!fcport) { ql_dbg(ql_dbg_tgt_mgt, vha, 0xf06f, "qla_target(%d): Allocation of tmp FC port failed",

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quinn.tran@cavium.com are

queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-retry-switch-command-on-time-out.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-abort-command-deadlock-due-to-spinlock.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-re-login-for-nport-handle-in-use.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-login-state-machine-stuck-at-gpdb.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-for-notify-ack-timeout-handling.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-replace-fcport-alloc-with-qla2x00_alloc_fcport.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-clear-loop-id-after-delete.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-relogin-being-triggered-too-fast.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-skip-irq-affinity-for-target-qpairs.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-scan-state-field-for-fcport.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-prli-state-check.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-in-qlt_plogi_ack_unref.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-serialize-gpnid-for-multiple-rscn.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-gpnid-error-processing.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-move-session-delete-to-driver-work-queue.patch