APPLIED: [SRU][F][PATCH 0/1] zPCI: Enabling of a reserved PCI function regression introduced by multi-function support (LP: 1891437)

[Kelsey Skunberg]

Applied to focal master-next. thank you! 

-Kelsey

On 2020-08-25 09:00:49 , frank.heimes at canonical.com wrote:
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891437
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> * If a NVMe drive is assigned/hotplugged to a Linux on s390x LPAR, a bug in lib/list_debug.c is hit and the device is not accessible.
> 
> * The reason is a missing /dev/ file -- lspci does not report it either.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> * 3047766bc6ec9c6bc9ece85b45a41ff401e8d988 3047766bc6ec "s390/pci: fix enabling a reserved PCI function"
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> * Assign a NMVe drive to your LPAR (using the HMC)
> 
> * Unassign the NVMe drive from your LPAR
> 
> * Reassign it to your LPAR again
> 
> * Look at dmesg for 'kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c'
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> * There is some regression risk with having code changes in the zPCI sub-system.
> 
> * zPCI is the PCI implementation on s390x, modifications here do not affect any other architecture.
> 
> * It could be that PCI events do not work anymore and NVMe devices don't IPL (boot) on s390x anymore.
> 
> * However, the code changes below to a single file: arch/s390/pci/pci_event.c
> 
> * and IPL from NVMe is brand new in Ubuntu for s390x,
> 
> * and zPCI devices are less wide-spread compared to ccw devices on s390x.
> 
> * On top a test kernel was build and made available for further testing.
> 
> [Other]
> 
> * Since the fix/patch got upstream accepted with kernel v5.8-rc5, it's already in the groovy proposed kernel 5.8, hence this SRU is for focal only.
> 
> Niklas Schnelle (1):
>   s390/pci: fix enabling a reserved PCI function
> 
>  arch/s390/pci/pci_event.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
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