From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751899AbcFVAzH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:55:07 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f51.google.com ([209.85.214.51]:38841 "EHLO mail-it0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751088AbcFVAzF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:55:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <7cc588b7-f1cf-62a8-e45b-ec7d863ba51e@leemhuis.info> From: Josh Boyer Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:55:02 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mHNXGTwDp2_6qh1OMQ2JaxuITag Message-ID: Subject: Re: Reported regressions for 4.7 as of Sunday, 2016-06-19 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Johannes Thumshirn , Thorsten Leemhuis , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis >> wrote: >>> Description: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference […] qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x49/0x4b0 [qla2xxx] >>> Report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120201 >>> Latest status: n/a >>> Date rep/stat: 2016-06-14 / n/a >>> Notes: poked bugzilla, a bit unsure how to proceed >> >> We have two bug reports against 4.5.5 - 4.5.7 of this as well. So >> whatever commit caused this in 4.7 seems to have been pulled into the >> 4.5.y stable tree. I suspect it is in the 4.6.y stable tree as well, >> but we don't have that pushed out yet. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348342 >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346753 > > That seems pretty unambiguous - 4.5.5 is fine, and 4.5.6 is bad. So > unless it's specific to whatever patches RH is carrying around, we > should be able to just look at the scsi-related stable tree patches in > that region. That seems simple enough. I thought the same. We're only carrying one very very old scsi patch to revalidate a pointer. That shouldn't even been involved in this path and upstream 4.7-rcX is hitting the same issue anyway. Thus far we've only seen reports for qla2xxx devices as far as I'm aware. > But theres' really only two (trivial) patches in there: > > - scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state > (f05795d3d771f30a7bdc3a138bf714b06d42aa95 upstream) > > - Revert "scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal" > (305c2e71b3d733ec065cb716c76af7d554bd5571 upstream) > > as far as I can tell. And neither of them looks very likely, but what > do I know. Adding Martin Petersen and Johannes Thumshirn to the > participants just in case they go "Ahh.." Right, I had the same head scratching. josh