On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:52:07AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Dear stable maintainers,
>
> Please backport the aboove commit to the stable series. Note, though
> as a first step it just applies cleanly to 6.1.y. Due to 9df650963bf6
> ("scsi: mpt3sas: Don't change DMA mask while reallocating pools") it
> does not apply cleanly to earlier series.
>
> For context: There were several reports in Debian about regression in
> 5.10.y already:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/1022268
> https://bugs.debian.org/1023183
> https://bugs.debian.org/1025747
> https://bugs.debian.org/1022126
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/Y1JkuKTjVYrOWbvm@xxxxxxxxxxx/ is
> the initial reporting to upstream and later on brought as well to the
> regression list:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/754b030c-ba14-167c-e2d0-2f4f5bf55e99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Thorsten suggested to first get the patch applied at least in 6.1.y
> but for further steps down we need help. Sreekanth and Martin is this
> still on your radar? Help with getting this back to 5.10.y would be
> welcome, and I'm sure with a tentative patch I can get some of the
> reporting users to report a Tested-by.
It only applies to 6.1.y, I would need a working backport to apply it to
any older kernels.
thanks,
greg k-h
