Re: [PATCH] ipr: fix PCI permanent error handler

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James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 18:41 -0300, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
>> The ipr driver can hang if it encounters enough PCI errors
>> to trigger the permanent error handler. The driver will attempt
>> to initiate a "bringdown" of the adapter and fail all pending
>> ops back. However, this bringdown is unlike any other bringdown
>> of the adapter in the code as the driver. In this code path we
>> end up failing back ops with allow_cmds still set to 1. This results
>> in some commands, the HCAM commands in particular, getting immediately
>> re-issued to the adapter on the done call, which results in
>> an infinite loop in ipr_fail_all_ops. Fix this by setting allow_cmds
>> to zero in this path. 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This signoff chain isn't right ... signoffs are supposed to document the
> hands through which this patch has patched.  I take it this should be
> acked-by Brian King instead?

Correct.


-- 
Brian King
Linux on Power Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center


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