Re: [PATCH v2] lpfc: Handle gracefully failed FLOGI attempts in devloss callback

[Daniel Wagner]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:38:41PM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> When FLOGI attempts fail, the vport can be released via
> lpfc_nlp_release() function. This function will set the pointer to NULL
> and the node state to NLP_STE_FREED_NODE. Though it wont stop the
> devloss timer in the upper SCSI layer.
> 
> Hence when the devloss timer eventually fires,
> lpfc_dev_loss_tmo_callbk() is called and it tries to operate on vport
> NULL pointer.
> 
> Just do nothing in this case. To be extra cautions also check for the
> state and issue a warning if we have an inconsistency.

Ignore this one. Just saw the proper fix:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?id=97f256913c5d