This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: Set elsiocb contexts to NULL after freeing it 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-lpfc-set-elsiocb-contexts-to-null-after-freeing-it.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 foo@baz Mon Jul 3 11:12:14 CEST 2017 From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:05:54 +0100 Subject: scsi: lpfc: Set elsiocb contexts to NULL after freeing it From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8667f515952feefebb3c0f8d9a9266c91b101a46 ] Set the elsiocb contexts to NULL after freeing as others depend on it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c @@ -3590,12 +3590,14 @@ lpfc_els_free_iocb(struct lpfc_hba *phba } else { buf_ptr1 = (struct lpfc_dmabuf *) elsiocb->context2; lpfc_els_free_data(phba, buf_ptr1); + elsiocb->context2 = NULL; } } if (elsiocb->context3) { buf_ptr = (struct lpfc_dmabuf *) elsiocb->context3; lpfc_els_free_bpl(phba, buf_ptr); + elsiocb->context3 = NULL; } lpfc_sli_release_iocbq(phba, elsiocb); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jthumshirn@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-set-elsiocb-contexts-to-null-after-freeing-it.patch