On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:31:20 -0800, James Smart wrote:
> When connected point to point, the driver does not know the FC4's
> supported by the other end. In Fabrics, it can query the nameserver.
> Thus the driver must send PRLI's for the FC4s it supports and enable
> support based on the acc(ept) or rej(ect) of the respective FC4 PRLI.
> Currently the driver supports SCSI and NVMe PRLI's.
>
> Unfortunately, although the behavior is per standard, many devices
> have come to expect only SCSI PRLI's. In this particular example, the
> NVMe PRLI is properly RJT'd but the target decided that it must LOGO after
> seeing the unexpected NVMe PRLI. The LOGO causes the sequence to restart
> and login is now in an infinite failure loop.
>
> [...]
Applied to 5.17/scsi-fixes, thanks!
[1/1] lpfc: fix pt2pt nvme PRLI reject LOGO loop
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/7f4c5a26f735
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
