From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932281AbdKCQmf (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2017 12:42:35 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:39770 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381AbdKCQmc (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2017 12:42:32 -0400 Message-ID: <1509727350.3148.36.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.14-rc7 From: James Bottomley To: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-scsi , linux-kernel Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:42:30 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One minor fix in the error leg of the qla2xxx driver (it oopses the system if we get an error trying to start the internal kernel thread).  The fix is minor because the problem isn't often encountered in the field (although it can be induced by inserting the module in a low memory environment). The patch is available here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-fixes The short changelog is: Douglas Miller (1): scsi: qla2xxx: Fix oops in qla2x00_probe_one error path And the diffstat: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) With full diff below. James --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c index 3bd956d3bc5d..dce42a416876 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c @@ -3212,6 +3212,7 @@ qla2x00_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) ql_log(ql_log_fatal, base_vha, 0x00ed, "Failed to start DPC thread.\n"); ret = PTR_ERR(ha->dpc_thread); + ha->dpc_thread = NULL; goto probe_failed; } ql_dbg(ql_dbg_init, base_vha, 0x00ee,