Patch "scsi: qla2xxx: Remove aborting ELS IOCB call issued as part of timeout." has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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;a=summary

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