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Michael Kelley 048ebc9a28 scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts
commit 175544ad48cbf56affeef2a679c6a4d4fb1e2881 upstream.

Hyper-V provides the ability to connect Fibre Channel LUNs to the host
system and present them in a guest VM as a SCSI device. I/O to the vFC
device is handled by the storvsc driver. The storvsc driver includes a
partial integration with the FC transport implemented in the generic
portion of the Linux SCSI subsystem so that FC attributes can be displayed
in /sys.  However, the partial integration means that some aspects of vFC
don't work properly. Unfortunately, a full and correct integration isn't
practical because of limitations in what Hyper-V provides to the guest.

In particular, in the context of Hyper-V storvsc, the FC transport timeout
function fc_eh_timed_out() causes a kernel panic because it can't find the
rport and dereferences a NULL pointer. The original patch that added the
call from storvsc_eh_timed_out() to fc_eh_timed_out() is faulty in this
regard.

In many cases a timeout is due to a transient condition, so the situation
can be improved by just continuing to wait like with other I/O requests
issued by storvsc, and avoiding the guaranteed panic. For a permanent
failure, continuing to wait may result in a hung thread instead of a panic,
which again may be better.

So fix the panic by removing the storvsc call to fc_eh_timed_out().  This
allows storvsc to keep waiting for a response.  The change has been tested
by users who experienced a panic in fc_eh_timed_out() due to transient
timeouts, and it solves their problem.

In the future we may want to deprecate the vFC functionality in storvsc
since it can't be fully fixed. But it has current users for whom it is
working well enough, so it should probably stay for a while longer.

Fixes: 3930d73098 ("scsi: storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1690606764-79669-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-16 18:19:24 +02:00
arch x86: Move gds_ucode_mitigated() declaration to header 2023-08-16 18:19:23 +02:00
block block/partition: fix signedness issue for Amiga partitions 2023-07-27 08:37:29 +02:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:11:22 +02:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature() 2023-06-21 15:44:08 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: security-bugs.rst: clarify CVE handling 2023-08-11 11:53:52 +02:00
drivers scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts 2023-08-16 18:19:24 +02:00
fs btrfs: set cache_block_group_error if we find an error 2023-08-16 18:19:24 +02:00
include netfilter: nf_tables: report use refcount overflow 2023-08-16 18:19:24 +02:00
init x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier 2023-08-08 19:56:36 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race 2022-12-08 11:23:06 +01:00
kernel perf: Fix function pointer case 2023-08-11 11:53:54 +02:00
lib test_firmware: return ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC on failed memory allocation 2023-08-11 11:54:00 +02:00
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mm mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks 2023-06-28 10:18:42 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_tables: report use refcount overflow 2023-08-16 18:19:24 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix buffer overflow in tcp_basertt 2023-07-27 08:37:07 +02:00
scripts modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section() 2023-07-27 08:37:18 +02:00
security keys: Fix linking a duplicate key to a keyring's assoc_array 2023-08-11 11:53:47 +02:00
sound ASoC: cs42l51: fix driver to properly autoload with automatic module loading 2023-08-11 11:53:54 +02:00
tools selftests/rseq: Fix build with undefined __weak 2023-08-16 18:19:23 +02:00
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virt KVM: Destroy target device if coalesced MMIO unregistration fails 2023-03-11 16:44:01 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS Remove DECnet support from kernel 2023-06-21 15:44:10 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.253 2023-08-11 11:54:02 +02:00
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Linux kernel
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