This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled skd: Submit requests to firmware before triggering the doorbell to the 3.18-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: skd-submit-requests-to-firmware-before-triggering-the-doorbell.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5fbd545cd3fd311ea1d6e8be4cedddd0ee5684c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:12:46 -0700 Subject: skd: Submit requests to firmware before triggering the doorbell From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> commit 5fbd545cd3fd311ea1d6e8be4cedddd0ee5684c7 upstream. Ensure that the members of struct skd_msg_buf have been transferred to the PCIe adapter before the doorbell is triggered. This patch avoids that I/O fails sporadically and that the following error message is reported: (skd0:STM000196603:[0000:00:09.0]): Completion mismatch comp_id=0x0000 skreq=0x0400 new=0x0000 Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/skd_main.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/block/skd_main.c +++ b/drivers/block/skd_main.c @@ -2214,6 +2214,9 @@ static void skd_send_fitmsg(struct skd_d */ qcmd |= FIT_QCMD_MSGSIZE_64; + /* Make sure skd_msg_buf is written before the doorbell is triggered. */ + smp_wmb(); + SKD_WRITEQ(skdev, qcmd, FIT_Q_COMMAND); } @@ -2260,6 +2263,9 @@ static void skd_send_special_fitmsg(stru qcmd = skspcl->mb_dma_address; qcmd |= FIT_QCMD_QID_NORMAL + FIT_QCMD_MSGSIZE_128; + /* Make sure skd_msg_buf is written before the doorbell is triggered. */ + smp_wmb(); + SKD_WRITEQ(skdev, qcmd, FIT_Q_COMMAND); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/skd-submit-requests-to-firmware-before-triggering-the-doorbell.patch queue-3.18/block-relax-a-check-in-blk_start_queue.patch queue-3.18/skd-avoid-that-module-unloading-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch