This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: Fix crash during Hardware error recovery on SLI3 adapters 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: scsi-lpfc-fix-crash-during-hardware-error-recovery-on-sli3-adapters.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 foo@baz Thu Dec 14 21:30:47 CET 2017 From: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 09:30:25 -0800 Subject: scsi: lpfc: Fix crash during Hardware error recovery on SLI3 adapters From: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5d181531bc6169e19a02a27d202cf0e982db9d0e ] if REG_VPI fails, the driver was incorrectly issuing INIT_VFI (a SLI4 command) on a SLI3 adapter. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@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 | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c @@ -7265,11 +7265,17 @@ lpfc_cmpl_reg_new_vport(struct lpfc_hba spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock); vport->fc_flag |= FC_VPORT_NEEDS_REG_VPI; spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); - if (vport->port_type == LPFC_PHYSICAL_PORT - && !(vport->fc_flag & FC_LOGO_RCVD_DID_CHNG)) - lpfc_issue_init_vfi(vport); - else + if (mb->mbxStatus == MBX_NOT_FINISHED) + break; + if ((vport->port_type == LPFC_PHYSICAL_PORT) && + !(vport->fc_flag & FC_LOGO_RCVD_DID_CHNG)) { + if (phba->sli_rev == LPFC_SLI_REV4) + lpfc_issue_init_vfi(vport); + else + lpfc_initial_flogi(vport); + } else { lpfc_initial_fdisc(vport); + } break; } } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/scsi-lpfc-fix-crash-during-hardware-error-recovery-on-sli3-adapters.patch