On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:02:13 -0400 Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Chad, Giri, et al. > > Stratus has been testing the upstream qla2xxx driver against surprise > device removal and has found a few minor issues along the way. With > this patchset, results have been good. Although the following changes > may be most interesting on a Stratus platform, they should be applicable > to general hotplug scenarios on other hardware. > > The first two patches are independent from the others and can be > reviewed as such. One fixes up a use-after-free and the other > consolidates some code. Patch 1 corrects a bug introduced by commit fe1b806, which has made its way into three linux-stable releases: % git tag --contains fe1b806 | grep '^v3.[0-9]*$' v3.14 v3.15 v3.16 > The final four patches are more invasive and modify the scsi_qla_host > structure to avoid device removal race conditions. These changes were > written to demonstrate the problem at hand and minimally fix them in > order to continue testing. (For example, adding completely a new > pci_flags member to scsi_qla_host is probably overkill.) > > We would welcome any feedback or questions about our testing. Chad ack'd the series on 28 Jul 2014. Any chance this can make into hch's queue for 3.18? Regards, -- Joe -- 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
