Re: [RESEND][PATCH 0/6] Fixes for memory corruption in mpt2sas

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Thu Jul 02 2015 - 16:15:23 EST


On 06/08/2015 08:50 PM, Calvin Owens wrote:
This patchset attempts to address problems we've been having with
panics due to memory corruption from the mpt2sas driver.

I will provide a similar set of fixes for mpt3sas, since we see
similar issues there as well. "Porting" this to mpt3sas will be
trivial since the part of the driver I'm touching is nearly identical
between the two, so I thought it would be simpler to review a patch
against mpt2sas alone at first.

I've tested this on a handful of large storage boxes over the past few
weeks, so far it seems to have completely eliminated the memory
corruption panics.

If you have to repost this series please convert BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ioc->sas_device_lock)); into lockdep_is_held(...). Otherwise, for the whole series:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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