Josip Rodin noted
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/10152) the
driver oopsing during registration of an rport to the
FC-transport layer with a backtrace indicating a dereferencing of
an shost->shost_data equal to NULL. David Miller identified a
small window in driver logic where this could happen:
> Look at how the driver registers the IRQ handler before the host has
> been registered with the SCSI layer.
>
> That leads to a window of time where the shost hasn't been setup
> fully, yet ISRs can come in and trigger DPC thread events, such as
> loop resyncs, which expect the transport area to be setup.
>
> But it won't be setup, because scsi_add_host() hasn't finished yet.
>
> Note that in Josip's crash log, we don't even see the
>
> qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "\n"
> " QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: %s\n"
> " QLogic %s - %s\n"
> " ISP%04X: %s @ %s hdma%c, host#=%ld, fw=%s\n",
> ...
>
> message yet.
>
> Which means that the crash occurs between qla2x00_request_irqs()
> and printing that message.
Close this window by enabling RISC interrupts after the host has
been registered with the SCSI midlayer.
Reported-by: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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