Re: Reported regressions for 4.7 as of Sunday, 2016-06-19

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
>> <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Description:    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference [â] 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