This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

libata: drop WARN from protocol error in ata_sff_qc_issue()

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: libata-drop-warn-from-protocol-error-in-ata_sff_qc_issue.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 Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017

From: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:26:54 -0500 Subject: libata: drop WARN from protocol error in ata_sff_qc_issue()

From: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org

[ Upstream commit 0580b762a4d6b70817476b90042813f8573283fa ]

ata_sff_qc_issue() expects upper layers to never issue commands on a command protocol that it doesn't implement. While the assumption holds fine with the usual IO path, nothing filters based on the command protocol in the passthrough path (which was added later), allowing the warning to be tripped with a passthrough command with the right (well, wrong) protocol.

Failing with AC_ERR_SYSTEM is the right thing to do anyway. Remove the unnecessary WARN.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bXkvevNZU8uP6X0QVqsj6wNoUA_1exfTSOzc+SmUtMOA... Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/ata/libata-sff.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c @@ -1481,7 +1481,6 @@ unsigned int ata_sff_qc_issue(struct ata break;

default: - WARN_ON_ONCE(1); return AC_ERR_SYSTEM; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/libata-drop-warn-from-protocol-error-in-ata_sff_qc_issue.patch queue-4.9/workqueue-trigger-warn-if-queue_delayed_work-is-called-with-null-wq.patch