[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "be2iscsi: Fix kernel panic when device initialization fails" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 6 09:48:50 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    be2iscsi: Fix kernel panic when device initialization fails

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 8b1bee3858aad25a49abd859e806ea1e0d18205c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Soni Jose <sony.john-n at emulex.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:45:47 +0530
Subject: be2iscsi: Fix kernel panic when device initialization fails

commit 2e7cee027b26cbe7e6685a7a14bd2850bfe55d33 upstream.

Kernel panic was happening as iscsi_host_remove() was called on
a host which was not yet added.

Signed-off-by: John Soni Jose <sony.john-n at emulex.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc at cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Odin.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
index f7e9c531cc26..5d13d109d9a2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c
@@ -5707,9 +5707,9 @@ free_port:
 hba_free:
 	if (phba->msix_enabled)
 		pci_disable_msix(phba->pcidev);
-	iscsi_host_remove(phba->shost);
 	pci_dev_put(phba->pcidev);
 	iscsi_host_free(phba->shost);
+	pci_set_drvdata(pcidev, NULL);
 disable_pci:
 	pci_disable_device(pcidev);
 	return ret;




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