On Wednesday 08/26 at 04:09 +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi James & Co, > > This series is a mpt3sas forward port of Calvin Owens' in-flight > reference counting bugfixes for mpt2sas LLD code here: > > [PATCH v4 0/2] Fixes for memory corruption in mpt2sas > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143951695904115&w=2 Nicholas, I'm glad to hear these fixes were helpful! I was planning on porting to mpt3sas in the near future, thanks for saving me the trouble :) Calvin > The differences between mpt2sas + mpt3sas in this area are very, > very small, and is required to address a NULL pointer dereference > OOPsen in _scsih_probe_sas() -> mpt3sas_transport_port_add() -> > sas_port_add_phy() that I've been hitting occasionally on boot > during initial LUN scan. > > So far this code has been tested on v3.14.47 with a small cluster > using SAS3008 HBAs plus a few preceeding upstream mpt3sas patches > so these patches apply cleanly, and with the changes in place the > original OOPsen appears to be resolved. > > This patch series is cut atop v4.2-rc1 code, and barring any > objections from Avago folks et al., should be considered along > with Calvin's mpt2sas patch set for v4.3-rc1 code. > > Thank you, > > --nab > > Nicholas Bellinger (2): > mpt3sas: Refcount sas_device objects and fix unsafe list usage > mpt3sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list usage > > drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h | 23 +- > drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 592 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c | 12 +- > 3 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.9.1 > -- 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
