Patch "scsi: hpsa: do not timeout reset operations" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    scsi: hpsa: do not timeout reset operations

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-hpsa-do-not-timeout-reset-operations.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 foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017
From: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:35:23 -0600
Subject: scsi: hpsa: do not timeout reset operations

From: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>


[ Upstream commit 2ef2884980873081a4edae92f9d88dd580c85f6e ]

Resets can take longer than DEFAULT_TIMEOUT.

Reviewed-by: Scott Benesh <scott.benesh@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.teel@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ static int hpsa_send_reset(struct ctlr_i
 	/* fill_cmd can't fail here, no data buffer to map. */
 	(void) fill_cmd(c, reset_type, h, NULL, 0, 0,
 			scsi3addr, TYPE_MSG);
-	rc = hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd(h, c, reply_queue, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
+	rc = hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd(h, c, reply_queue, NO_TIMEOUT);
 	if (rc) {
 		dev_warn(&h->pdev->dev, "Failed to send reset command\n");
 		goto out;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from don.brace@microsemi.com are

queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-limit-outstanding-rescans.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-cleanup-sas_phy-structures-in-sysfs-when-unloading.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-destroy-sas-transport-properties-before-scsi_host.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-do-not-timeout-reset-operations.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-update-check-for-logical-volume-status.patch