This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: qla2xxx: Fix abort command deadlock due to spinlock 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-fix-abort-command-deadlock-due-to-spinlock.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 b0dcce746b32ac573343ad39cb3dc485030de95e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:45:09 -0800 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix abort command deadlock due to spinlock From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b0dcce746b32ac573343ad39cb3dc485030de95e upstream. Original code acquires hardware_lock to add Abort IOCB onto driver request queue for processing. However, abort_command() will also acquire hardware lock to look up sp pointer before issuing abort IOCB command resulting into a deadlock. This patch safely removes the possible deadlock scenario by removing extra spinlock. Fixes: 6eb54715b54bb ("qla2xxx: Added interface to send explicit LOGO.") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.10+ Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@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_iocb.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c @@ -2394,7 +2394,6 @@ qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout(void *data struct scsi_qla_host *vha = sp->vha; struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw; struct srb_iocb *lio = &sp->u.iocb_cmd; - unsigned long flags = 0; ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3069, "%s Timeout, hdl=%x, portid=%02x%02x%02x\n", @@ -2402,7 +2401,6 @@ qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout(void *data fcport->d_id.b.al_pa); /* Abort the exchange */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&ha->hardware_lock, flags); if (ha->isp_ops->abort_command(sp)) { ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3070, "mbx abort_command failed.\n"); @@ -2410,7 +2408,6 @@ qla2x00_els_dcmd_iocb_timeout(void *data ql_dbg(ql_dbg_io, vha, 0x3071, "mbx abort_command success.\n"); } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ha->hardware_lock, flags); complete(&lio->u.els_logo.comp); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-retry-switch-command-on-time-out.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-relogin-to-target-port-on-a-cable-swap.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-abort-command-deadlock-due-to-spinlock.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-re-login-for-nport-handle-in-use.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-login-state-machine-stuck-at-gpdb.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-for-notify-ack-timeout-handling.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-replace-fcport-alloc-with-qla2x00_alloc_fcport.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-clear-loop-id-after-delete.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-relogin-being-triggered-too-fast.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-skip-irq-affinity-for-target-qpairs.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-scan-state-field-for-fcport.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-prli-state-check.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-in-qlt_plogi_ack_unref.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-serialize-gpnid-for-multiple-rscn.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-gpnid-error-processing.patch queue-4.15/scsi-qla2xxx-move-session-delete-to-driver-work-queue.patch