This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: qla2xxx: Defer processing of GS IOCB calls to the 4.15-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-qla2xxx-defer-processing-of-gs-iocb-calls.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5d3300a9b8b122b4743aed5a178bf12c87e2b8c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:45:13 -0800 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Defer processing of GS IOCB calls From: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5d3300a9b8b122b4743aed5a178bf12c87e2b8c9 upstream. This patch defers processing of GS IOCB calls from interrupt context to avoid hardware spinlock recursion. Following stack trace is seen ? mod_timer+0x193/0x330 ? ql_dbg+0xa7/0xf0 [qla2xxx] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x31/0x40 qla2x00_start_sp+0x3b/0x250 [qla2xxx] qla24xx_async_gnl+0x1d3/0x240 [qla2xxx] qla24xx_fcport_handle_login+0x285/0x290 [qla2xxx] ? vprintk_func+0x20/0x50 Fixes: 726b85487067d ("qla2xxx: Add framework for async fabric discovery") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.10+ Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ int qla24xx_fcport_handle_login(struct s ql_dbg(ql_dbg_disc, vha, 0x20bd, "%s %d %8phC post gnl\n", __func__, __LINE__, fcport->port_name); - qla24xx_async_gnl(vha, fcport); + qla24xx_post_gnl_work(vha, fcport); } else { ql_dbg(ql_dbg_disc, vha, 0x20bf, "%s %d %8phC post login\n", @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ void qla24xx_handle_relogin_event(scsi_q ql_dbg(ql_dbg_disc, vha, 0x20e9, "%s %d %8phC post gidpn\n", __func__, __LINE__, fcport->port_name); - qla24xx_async_gidpn(vha, fcport); + qla24xx_post_gidpn_work(vha, fcport); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from giridhar.malavali@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-defer-processing-of-gs-iocb-calls.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-remove-aborting-els-iocb-call-issued-as-part-of-timeout.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-in-qlt_plogi_ack_unref.patch