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

scsi: megaraid_sas: unload flag should be set after scsi_remove_host is called

to the 4.15-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-megaraid_sas-unload-flag-should-be-set-after-scsi_remove_host-is-called.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 Apr 9 10:16:32 CEST 2018

From: Shivasharan S shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 05:27:41 -0800 Subject: scsi: megaraid_sas: unload flag should be set after scsi_remove_host is called

From: Shivasharan S shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com

[ Upstream commit f3f7920b3910171b2999c7dc2335eb9f583e44f2 ]

Issue - Driver returns DID_NO_CONNECT when unload is in progress, indicated using instance->unload flag. In case of dynamic unload of driver, this flag is set before calling scsi_remove_host(). While doing manual driver unload, user will see lots of prints for Sync Cache command with DID_NO_CONNECT status.

Fix - Set the instance->unload flag after scsi_remove_host(). Allow device removal process to be completed and do not block any command before that. SCSI commands (like SYNC_CACHE) are received (as part of scsi_remove_host) by driver during unload will be submitted further down to the drives.

Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena sumit.saxena@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Shivasharan S shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c @@ -6822,7 +6822,6 @@ static void megasas_detach_one(struct pc u32 pd_seq_map_sz;

instance = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); - instance->unload = 1; host = instance->host; fusion = instance->ctrl_context;

@@ -6833,6 +6832,7 @@ static void megasas_detach_one(struct pc if (instance->fw_crash_state != UNAVAILABLE) megasas_free_host_crash_buffer(instance); scsi_remove_host(instance->host); + instance->unload = 1;

if (megasas_wait_for_adapter_operational(instance)) goto skip_firing_dcmds;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com are

queue-4.15/scsi-megaraid_sas-error-handling-for-invalid-ldcount-provided-by-firmware-in-raid-map.patch queue-4.15/scsi-megaraid_sas-unload-flag-should-be-set-after-scsi_remove_host-is-called.patch