Re: [PATCH 5/8][SCSI] mpt2sas: Infinite loop can occur if MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE is not returned

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 07:00 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 11:29 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> > Infinite loop can occur if IOCStatus is not equal to
> > MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE value in the while loops in functions
> > _scsih_search_responding_sas_devices,
> > _scsih_search_responding_raid_devices and
> > _scsih_search_responding_expanders
> > 
> > So, Instead of checking for MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE value,
> > in this patch code is modified to check for IOCStatus not equals to
> > MPI2_IOCSTATUS_SUCCESS to break the while loop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Patches like this aren't acceptable any more: Greg will find this and
> reject it from Stable.
> 
> If there's a bug in the driver, it needs to be in a separate patch set
> for the fixes branch of SCSI to go upstream now rather than waiting for
> the merge window.  Only patches for the fixes branch can be tagged for
> stable.

Ping on this, please.  What do you want me to do?  I can strip the cc:
stable from the series and send it to the misc branch or you can
resubmit as two series: one for fixes with the stable tags and the rest
for misc.

James