This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: fnic: Avoid sending reset to firmware when another reset is in progress to the 4.4-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-fnic-avoid-sending-reset-to-firmware-when-another-reset-is-in-progress.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Fri Aug 4 15:30:20 PDT 2017 From: Satish Kharat <satishkh@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:20:41 -0800 Subject: scsi: fnic: Avoid sending reset to firmware when another reset is in progress From: Satish Kharat <satishkh@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9698b6f473555a722bf81a3371998427d5d27bde ] This fix is to avoid calling fnic_fw_reset_handler through fnic_host_reset when a finc reset is alreay in progress. Signed-off-by: Satish Kharat <satishkh@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sesidhar Baddela <sebaddel@xxxxxxxxx> 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/fnic/fnic.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic.h @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ struct fnic { struct completion *remove_wait; /* device remove thread blocks */ atomic_t in_flight; /* io counter */ + bool internal_reset_inprogress; u32 _reserved; /* fill hole */ unsigned long state_flags; /* protected by host lock */ enum fnic_state state; --- a/drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c @@ -2533,6 +2533,19 @@ int fnic_host_reset(struct scsi_cmnd *sc unsigned long wait_host_tmo; struct Scsi_Host *shost = sc->device->host; struct fc_lport *lp = shost_priv(shost); + struct fnic *fnic = lport_priv(lp); + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&fnic->fnic_lock, flags); + if (fnic->internal_reset_inprogress == 0) { + fnic->internal_reset_inprogress = 1; + } else { + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fnic->fnic_lock, flags); + FNIC_SCSI_DBG(KERN_DEBUG, fnic->lport->host, + "host reset in progress skipping another host reset\n"); + return SUCCESS; + } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fnic->fnic_lock, flags); /* * If fnic_reset is successful, wait for fabric login to complete @@ -2553,6 +2566,9 @@ int fnic_host_reset(struct scsi_cmnd *sc } } + spin_lock_irqsave(&fnic->fnic_lock, flags); + fnic->internal_reset_inprogress = 0; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fnic->fnic_lock, flags); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from satishkh@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/scsi-fnic-avoid-sending-reset-to-firmware-when-another-reset-is-in-progress.patch