Hi James, Sorry for the delay. we support the first method i.e. "strip the cc: stable from this patch and send it to the misc branch". Thanks, Sreekanth. >-----Original Message----- >From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:11 PM >To: Reddy, Sreekanth >Cc: linux-scsi; Prakash, Sathya; Nandigama, Nagalakshmi >Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8][SCSI] mpt2sas: Infinite loop can occur if >MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE is not returned > >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@xxxxxxx> >> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> 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 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
