This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid that issuing a LIP triggers a kernel crash to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-qla2xxx-avoid-that-issuing-a-lip-triggers-a-kernel-crash.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2780f3c8f0233de90b6b47a23fc422b7780c5436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:07:06 -0200 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid that issuing a LIP triggers a kernel crash From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2780f3c8f0233de90b6b47a23fc422b7780c5436 upstream. Avoid that issuing a LIP as follows: find /sys -name 'issue_lip'|while read f; do echo 1 > $f; done triggers the following: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) Call Trace: qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0xed/0x140 [qla2xxx] qla2x00_abort_isp_cleanup+0x1e3/0x280 [qla2xxx] qla2x00_abort_isp+0xef/0x690 [qla2xxx] qla2x00_do_dpc+0x36c/0x880 [qla2xxx] kthread+0x10c/0x140 [mkp: consolidated Mauricio's and Bart's fixes] Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1535aa75a3d8 ("qla2xxx: fix invalid DMA access after command aborts in PCI device remove") Cc: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c @@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ qla2x00_abort_all_cmds(scsi_qla_host_t * /* Don't abort commands in adapter during EEH * recovery as it's not accessible/responding. */ - if (!ha->flags.eeh_busy) { + if (GET_CMD_SP(sp) && !ha->flags.eeh_busy) { /* Get a reference to the sp and drop the lock. * The reference ensures this sp->done() call * - and not the call in qla2xxx_eh_abort() - Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-qla2xxx-avoid-that-issuing-a-lip-triggers-a-kernel-crash.patch -- 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