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. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html