This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: PLOGI failures during NPIV testing 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-plogi-failures-during-npiv-testing.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 21 10:55:04 CET 2017 From: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:34:32 -0700 Subject: scsi: lpfc: PLOGI failures during NPIV testing From: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e8bcf0ae4c0346fdc78ebefe0eefcaa6a6622d38 ] Local Reject/Invalid RPI errors seen during discovery. Temporary RPI cleanup was occurring regardless of SLI rev. It's only necessary on SLI-4. Adjust the test for whether cleanup is necessary. 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: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c @@ -4737,7 +4737,8 @@ lpfc_nlp_remove(struct lpfc_vport *vport lpfc_cancel_retry_delay_tmo(vport, ndlp); if ((ndlp->nlp_flag & NLP_DEFER_RM) && !(ndlp->nlp_flag & NLP_REG_LOGIN_SEND) && - !(ndlp->nlp_flag & NLP_RPI_REGISTERED)) { + !(ndlp->nlp_flag & NLP_RPI_REGISTERED) && + phba->sli_rev != LPFC_SLI_REV4) { /* For this case we need to cleanup the default rpi * allocated by the firmware. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/scsi-lpfc-fix-pt2pt-prli-reject.patch queue-3.18/scsi-lpfc-plogi-failures-during-npiv-testing.patch queue-3.18/scsi-lpfc-fix-secure-firmware-updates.patch