This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort 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-fcoe-vport-enable-disable-does-not-bring-up-the-vport.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 Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017 From: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:07:25 -0800 Subject: scsi: lpfc: FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort From: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 104450eb08ca662e6b1d02da11aca9598e978f3e ] FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort. VPI structure needed to be initialized before being re-registered. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> 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_vport.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_vport.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_vport.c @@ -537,6 +537,12 @@ enable_vport(struct fc_vport *fc_vport) spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock); vport->load_flag |= FC_LOADING; + if (vport->fc_flag & FC_VPORT_NEEDS_INIT_VPI) { + spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); + lpfc_issue_init_vpi(vport); + goto out; + } + vport->fc_flag |= FC_VPORT_NEEDS_REG_VPI; spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); @@ -557,6 +563,8 @@ enable_vport(struct fc_vport *fc_vport) } else { lpfc_vport_set_state(vport, FC_VPORT_FAILED); } + +out: lpfc_printf_vlog(vport, KERN_ERR, LOG_VPORT, "1827 Vport Enabled.\n"); return VPORT_OK; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-clear-the-vendorversion-in-the-plogi-plogi-acc-payload.patch queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-correct-host-name-in-symbolic_name-field.patch queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-fcoe-vport-enable-disable-does-not-bring-up-the-vport.patch queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-correct-issue-leading-to-oops-during-link-reset.patch queue-4.9/scsi-lpfc-add-missing-memory-barrier.patch