Re: Backport of a fix for HPSA (Disabling a disabled device problem during kdump) driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> On 04/27/2015 02:55 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:17:32PM +0200, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> >> On 04/26/2015 11:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 03:18:44PM +0200, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> >>>> On 04/11/2015 12:45 AM, Vinson Lee wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:15:19PM +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 01/05/2015 07:41 PM, Masoud Sharbiani wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Dear stable maintainers,
> >>>>>>>> Can you please backport commitid 132aa220b45d60e9b20def1e9d8be9422eed9616
> >>>>>>>>  (hpsa: refine the pci enable/disable handling) to 3.10 stable (and
> >>>>>>>> earlier, if applicable)?
> >>>>>>> Please do not apply this patch isolated from his friend, the
> >>>>>>> 859c75aba20264d87dd026bab0d0ca3bff385955 hpsa: add missing pci_set_master in kdump path
> >>>>>>> needs to be applied together with the 132aa220b45d60e9b20def1e9d8be9422eed9616 .
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> In addition to that, after the original issue goes away you may notice sometimes
> >>>>>>> an unhandled irq 16 message, to fix this a patch is posted
> >>>>>>> here http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg80316.html
> >>>>>>> This patch still awaits a maintainers review though.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Probably the best idea is to wait until the issue is solved completely.
> >>>>>> I'll wait, when it all gets worked out, please let stable@ know what
> >>>>>> patches to apply where.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> greg k-h
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> >>>>> Hi, Thomas.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The unhandled irq 16 issue seems to be fixed by 4.0-rc1 commit "hpsa:
> >>>>> turn off interrupts when kdump starts".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are the following patches suitable for stable now?
> >>>> Yes, I believe they are, just note that 
> >>>> 03741d9 hpsa: fix memory leak in kdump hard reset
> >>>> is not a part of that group we discussed before, but it may be added
> >>>> to stable too.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Tomas
> >>>>
> >>>>> 3b74729 hpsa: turn off interrupts when kdump starts
> >>>>> 03741d9 hpsa: fix memory leak in kdump hard reset
> >>>>> 859c75a hpsa: add missing pci_set_master in kdump path
> >>>>> 132aa22 hpsa: refine the pci enable/disable handling
> >>> So what order, and to what stable tree(s) do you want these applied to?
> >>> They seem to span a number of kernel versions, so I'm not quite sure
> >>> what you are wanting me to do.
> >> Please add it in this order
> >> 1. 132aa220b4 hpsa: refine the pci enable/disable handling
> >> 2. 859c75aba2 hpsa: add missing pci_set_master in kdump path
> >>    The first two patches create the fix Masoud has asked for originally to port to stable.
> >> 3. 3b74729878 hpsa: turn off interrupts when kdump starts
> >>    The third should be added too, it fixes an issue made visible by the first patch
> >>
> >> The fourth patch
> >> 03741d956e hpsa: fix memory leak in kdump hard reset
> >> is completely unrelated to the first group, so it may be added after or before
> >> or in the same sequence as it is in the mainline - that is before the third patch.
> >> This patch is tiny error path fix - not sure if important enough for stable.
> > Which stable tree(s) do you want these applied to?  As these "span"
> > different kernel versions, I have no idea of what to do here.
> 
> Masoud has asked for the inclusion, I think that what he wrote was - "3.10 stable (and earlier, if applicable)",
> I don't know much about stable so I can't decide to which tree(s) the series should be ported.

Ok, I'll wait for someone to clarify before doing anything here.

thanks,

greg k-h