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    scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts · 175544ad
    Michael Kelley authored
    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: 3930d730 ("scsi: storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1690606764-79669-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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