This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: fix pci hot plug crash in timer management routines to the 4.14-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-fix-pci-hot-plug-crash-in-timer-management-routines.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1901762f2ca2747ed269239ca5332a8023ce4e3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:34:27 -0700 Subject: scsi: lpfc: fix pci hot plug crash in timer management routines From: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1901762f2ca2747ed269239ca5332a8023ce4e3d upstream. During pci hot plug, the kernel crashes in timer management code. The sli4 remove_one handler is not stoping the timers as it starts to remove the port so that it can be swapped. Fix: Stop the timers early in the handler routine. Note: Fix in SLI-4 only. SLI-3 already stopped the timers properly. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c @@ -11420,6 +11420,7 @@ lpfc_pci_remove_one_s4(struct pci_dev *p lpfc_debugfs_terminate(vport); lpfc_sli4_hba_unset(phba); + lpfc_stop_hba_timers(phba); spin_lock_irq(&phba->hbalock); list_del_init(&vport->listentry); spin_unlock_irq(&phba->hbalock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/scsi-lpfc-fix-crash-receiving-els-while-detaching-driver.patch queue-4.14/scsi-lpfc-fix-pci-hot-plug-crash-in-list_add-call.patch queue-4.14/scsi-lpfc-fix-pci-hot-plug-crash-in-timer-management-routines.patch queue-4.14/scsi-lpfc-fix-fcp-hba_wqidx-assignment.patch queue-4.14/scsi-lpfc-fix-oops-if-nvmet_fc_register_targetport-fails.patch