On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 07:00 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 11:29 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > > Infinite loop can occur if IOCStatus is not equal to > > MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE value in the while loops in functions > > _scsih_search_responding_sas_devices, > > _scsih_search_responding_raid_devices and > > _scsih_search_responding_expanders > > > > So, Instead of checking for MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE value, > > in this patch code is modified to check for IOCStatus not equals to > > MPI2_IOCSTATUS_SUCCESS to break the while loop. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Patches like this aren't acceptable any more: Greg will find this and > reject it from Stable. > > If there's a bug in the driver, it needs to be in a separate patch set > for the fixes branch of SCSI to go upstream now rather than waiting for > the merge window. Only patches for the fixes branch can be tagged for > stable.
Ping on this, please. What do you want me to do? I can strip the cc: stable from the series and send it to the misc branch or you can resubmit as two series: one for fixes with the stable tags and the rest for misc. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
