This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: on channel error, reject further cmd requests
to the 4.4-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:
s390-qeth-on-channel-error-reject-further-cmd-requests.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Mar 29 08:33:08 CEST 2018
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:59:15 +0100
Subject: s390/qeth: on channel error, reject further cmd requests
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a6c3d93963e4b333c764fde69802c3ea9eaa9d5c ]
When the IRQ handler determines that one of the cmd IO channels has
failed and schedules recovery, block any further cmd requests from
being submitted. The request would inevitably stall, and prevent the
recovery from making progress until the request times out.
This sort of error was observed after Live Guest Relocation, where
the pending IO on the READ channel intentionally gets terminated to
kick-start recovery. Simultaneously the guest executed SIOCETHTOOL,
triggering qeth to issue a QUERY CARD INFO command. The command
then stalled in the inoperabel WRITE channel.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
@@ -1166,6 +1166,7 @@ static void qeth_irq(struct ccw_device *
}
rc = qeth_get_problem(cdev, irb);
if (rc) {
+ card->read_or_write_problem = 1;
qeth_clear_ipacmd_list(card);
qeth_schedule_recovery(card);
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-when-thread-completes-wake-up-all-waiters.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-lock-read-device-while-queueing-next-buffer.patch
queue-4.4/net-iucv-free-memory-obtained-by-kzalloc.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-on-channel-error-reject-further-cmd-requests.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch