This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: hpsa: do not timeout reset operations
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: scsi-hpsa-do-not-timeout-reset-operations.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017
From: Don Brace don.brace@microsemi.com Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:35:23 -0600 Subject: scsi: hpsa: do not timeout reset operations
From: Don Brace don.brace@microsemi.com
[ Upstream commit 2ef2884980873081a4edae92f9d88dd580c85f6e ]
Resets can take longer than DEFAULT_TIMEOUT.
Reviewed-by: Scott Benesh scott.benesh@microsemi.com Reviewed-by: Scott Teel scott.teel@microsemi.com Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl thenzl@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Don Brace don.brace@microsemi.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ static int hpsa_send_reset(struct ctlr_i /* fill_cmd can't fail here, no data buffer to map. */ (void) fill_cmd(c, reset_type, h, NULL, 0, 0, scsi3addr, TYPE_MSG); - rc = hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd(h, c, reply_queue, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT); + rc = hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd(h, c, reply_queue, NO_TIMEOUT); if (rc) { dev_warn(&h->pdev->dev, "Failed to send reset command\n"); goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from don.brace@microsemi.com are
queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-limit-outstanding-rescans.patch queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-cleanup-sas_phy-structures-in-sysfs-when-unloading.patch queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-destroy-sas-transport-properties-before-scsi_host.patch queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-do-not-timeout-reset-operations.patch queue-4.9/scsi-hpsa-update-check-for-logical-volume-status.patch