Hi,

I am observing below kernel panic when I load the driver with this
patch changes. After reverting this patch changes then the driver is
getting loaded successfully.

[  414.493579] mpt3sas_cm0: port enable: SUCCESS
[  414.498313] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000024000000ba
[  414.505182] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  414.510322] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  414.515462] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  414.518000] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  414.522360] CPU: 31 PID: 48 Comm: kworker/u98:0 Kdump: loaded
Tainted: G           OE     5.17.0-rc1+ #1
[  414.531833] Hardware name: Supermicro AS -1114S-WTRT/H12SSW-NT,
BIOS 1.1a 05/28/2020
[  414.539564] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[  414.544877] RIP: 0010:scsih_qcmd+0x29/0x450 [mpt3sas]
[  414.549938] Code: 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 48
89 fd 53 48 89 f3 48 83 ec 18 f6 87 91 08 00 00 40 0f 85 e3 00 05
[  414.568684] RSP: 0018:ffffa397c67df8d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  414.573912] RAX: 0000002400000012 RBX: ffff947666d84208 RCX: ffff947666d84208
[  414.581042] RDX: ffff947603afa000 RSI: ffff947666d84208 RDI: ffff947603afa000
[  414.588168] RBP: ffff947603afa000 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: ffff94764ad2fa30
[  414.595301] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff947603afa000
[  414.602434] R13: ffff947667d87000 R14: ffff947603afa000 R15: ffffa397c67df9d0
[  414.609568] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff947d2fbc0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[  414.617654] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  414.623399] CR2: 00000024000000ba CR3: 00000004c9e0a000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
[  414.630531] Call Trace:
[  414.632977]  <TASK>
[  414.635084]  scsi_queue_rq+0x36e/0xa70
[  414.638836]  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x2f6/0x8e0
[  414.643455]  ? get_page_from_freelist+0xb70/0xe50
[  414.648161]  ? __sbitmap_get_word+0x37/0x80
[  414.652347]  __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xb2/0x140
[  414.657661]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
[  414.662712]  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x34/0x90
[  414.666985]  __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x18b/0x1c0
[  414.671949]  blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0xd3/0x140
[  414.676830]  blk_execute_rq+0x53/0xf0
[  414.680495]  __scsi_execute+0x101/0x260
[  414.684337]  scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x181/0xe10
[  414.688869]  __scsi_scan_target+0xec/0x5a0
[  414.692969]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1f/0x31
[  414.697933]  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x54/0x70
[  414.702208]  scsi_scan_target+0xf8/0x110
[  414.706135]  sas_rphy_add+0x162/0x1b0 [scsi_transport_sas]
[  414.711620]  mpt3sas_transport_port_add+0x315/0x480 [mpt3sas]
[  414.717375]  _scsih_complete_devices_scanning+0x2f8/0x336 [mpt3sas]
[  414.723648]  scsih_scan_finished.cold.103+0x91/0xe3 [mpt3sas]
[  414.729393]  do_scsi_scan_host+0x6f/0x90
[  414.733321]  do_scan_async+0x17/0x150
[  414.736987]  async_run_entry_fn+0x30/0x130
[  414.741085]  process_one_work+0x1c8/0x390
[  414.745099]  worker_thread+0x30/0x350
[  414.748764]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[  414.752951]  kthread+0xe8/0x110
[  414.756098]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[  414.760891]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[  414.764469]  </TASK>
[  414.766662] Modules linked in: mpt3sas(OE) xt_CHECKSUM
xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_nat_tftp nft_objref
nf_conntrack_tc
[  414.766715]  drm_ttm_helper ttm ahci crc32c_intel libahci drm
bnxt_en libata raid_class scsi_transport_sas pinctrl_amd dm_mirror d]
[  414.869470] CR2: 00000024000000ba

Thanks,
Sreekanth

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 4:55 AM Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 14:39:48 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> > This converts to a flexible array instead of the old-style 1-element
> > arrays. The existing code already did the correct math for finding the
> > size of the resulting flexible array structure, so there is no binary
> > difference.
> >
> > The other two structures converted to use flexible arrays appear to
> > have no users at all.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to 5.18/scsi-queue, thanks!
>
> [1/1] scsi: mpt3sas: Convert to flexible arrays
>       https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/d20b3dae630f
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering