"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpicc...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> During a PCI error recovery, if aac_check_health() is not aware that
> a PCI error happened and we have an offline PCI channel, it might
> trigger some errors (like NULL pointer dereference) and inhibit the
> error recovery process to complete.
>
> This patch makes the health check procedure aware of PCI channel
> issues, and in case of error recovery process, the function
> aac_adapter_check_health() returns -1 and let the recovery process
> to complete successfully. This patch was tested on upstream kernel
> v4.11-rc5 in PowerPC ppc64le architecture with adapter 9005:028d
> (VID:DID) - the error recovery procedure was able to recover fine.

Applied to 4.11/scsi-fixes, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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