This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SCSI: bfa: Fix crash when symb name set for offline vport to the 3.12-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-bfa-fix-crash-when-symb-name-set-for-offline-vport.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 22a08538dca5c0630226f1c0c58dccd12e463d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vmohan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:37:49 -0800 Subject: SCSI: bfa: Fix crash when symb name set for offline vport From: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vmohan@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 22a08538dca5c0630226f1c0c58dccd12e463d22 upstream. This patch fixes a crash when tried setting symbolic name for an offline vport through sysfs. Crash is due to uninitialized pointer lport->ns, which gets initialized only on linkup (port online). Signed-off-by: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vmohan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs_lport.c | 14 +++++++++++--- drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c | 7 ++----- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs.h @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ wwn_t bfa_fcs_lport_get_rport(struct bfa struct bfa_fcs_lport_s *bfa_fcs_lookup_port(struct bfa_fcs_s *fcs, u16 vf_id, wwn_t lpwwn); +void bfa_fcs_lport_set_symname(struct bfa_fcs_lport_s *port, char *symname); void bfa_fcs_lport_get_info(struct bfa_fcs_lport_s *port, struct bfa_lport_info_s *port_info); void bfa_fcs_lport_get_attr(struct bfa_fcs_lport_s *port, --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs_lport.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcs_lport.c @@ -1097,6 +1097,17 @@ bfa_fcs_lport_init(struct bfa_fcs_lport_ bfa_sm_send_event(lport, BFA_FCS_PORT_SM_CREATE); } +void +bfa_fcs_lport_set_symname(struct bfa_fcs_lport_s *port, + char *symname) +{ + strcpy(port->port_cfg.sym_name.symname, symname); + + if (bfa_sm_cmp_state(port, bfa_fcs_lport_sm_online)) + bfa_fcs_lport_ns_util_send_rspn_id( + BFA_FCS_GET_NS_FROM_PORT(port), NULL); +} + /* * fcs_lport_api */ @@ -5140,9 +5151,6 @@ bfa_fcs_lport_ns_util_send_rspn_id(void u8 *psymbl = &symbl[0]; int len; - if (!bfa_sm_cmp_state(port, bfa_fcs_lport_sm_online)) - return; - /* Avoid sending RSPN in the following states. */ if (bfa_sm_cmp_state(ns, bfa_fcs_lport_ns_sm_offline) || bfa_sm_cmp_state(ns, bfa_fcs_lport_ns_sm_plogi_sending) || --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c @@ -593,11 +593,8 @@ bfad_im_vport_set_symbolic_name(struct f return; spin_lock_irqsave(&bfad->bfad_lock, flags); - if (strlen(sym_name) > 0) { - strcpy(fcs_vport->lport.port_cfg.sym_name.symname, sym_name); - bfa_fcs_lport_ns_util_send_rspn_id( - BFA_FCS_GET_NS_FROM_PORT((&fcs_vport->lport)), NULL); - } + if (strlen(sym_name) > 0) + bfa_fcs_lport_set_symname(&fcs_vport->lport, sym_name); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bfad->bfad_lock, flags); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vmohan@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/scsi-bfa-fix-crash-when-symb-name-set-for-offline-vport.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html