Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Fixes for memory corruption in mpt2sas

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 - 17:21:31 EST


On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:48 -0700, Calvin Owens wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This patchset attempts to address problems we've been having with
> panics due to memory corruption from the mpt2sas driver.
>
> Thanks,
> Calvin
>
>
> [PATCH v4 1/2] mpt2sas: Refcount sas_device objects and fix unsafe list
> [PATCH v4 2/2] mpt2sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list usage
>
> Total diffstat:
> drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h | 22 +-
> drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c | 592 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c | 12 +-
> 3 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
>
> Diff showing changes v3 => v4:
> http://jcalvinowens.github.io/stuff/mpt2sas-patchset-v3v4.patch
>
> Diff showing changes v2 => v3:
> http://jcalvinowens.github.io/stuff/mpt2sas-patchset-v2v3.patch
>
> Diff showing changes v1 => v2:
> http://jcalvinowens.github.io/stuff/mpt2sas-patchset-v1v2.patch
> --

(Adding JEJB CC')

James, please considering pick this up for v4.3-rc1.

Btw, I'm seeing the same type of issues on mpt3sas, and unless someone
at Avago is already working on a similar patch series, I'll end up
forward porting these to mpt3sas code.

Thank you,

--nab

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