Bug 472382 - [QLogic 5.3 bug] qla2xx/qla84xx - Failure to establish link.
Summary: [QLogic 5.3 bug] qla2xx/qla84xx - Failure to establish link.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Marcus Barrow
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 473917 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 415811
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-20 16:02 UTC by Marcus Barrow
Modified: 2009-06-20 08:12 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-01-20 20:00:00 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
init 84xx properly (1.50 KB, patch)
2008-11-20 16:10 UTC, Marcus Barrow
no flags Details | Diff
Console log for the kernel panic seen with the above patch (3.32 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-02 16:37 UTC, Martin George
no flags Details
Kernel panic log (4.40 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-03 13:56 UTC, Martin George
no flags Details
really correct 84xx init (4.81 KB, patch)
2008-12-05 03:29 UTC, Marcus Barrow
no flags Details | Diff
Kernel panic log during qla2xxx unload (21.31 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-07 19:43 UTC, Martin George
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0225 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update 2009-01-20 16:06:24 UTC

Description Marcus Barrow 2008-11-20 16:02:38 UTC
QLogic testing is showing that the FCoE adapter is unable to bring up it's link. This is because of an additional initialization step required by the ethernet hardware. In upstream this code would be called thru the scsi_start_scan interface which is not present in rhel 5.

This is a simple patch which explicitly calls the additional initialization routine for the FCoE hardware.

It applies and builds cleanly to 2.6.18-123, and is observed to fix the problem at QLogic.

Comment 1 Marcus Barrow 2008-11-20 16:10:45 UTC
Created attachment 324190 [details]
init 84xx properly

Comment 3 Andrius Benokraitis 2008-12-01 22:05:13 UTC
*** Bug 473917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Martin George 2008-12-02 16:37:52 UTC
Created attachment 325391 [details]
Console log for the kernel panic seen with the above patch

After applying the above patch, I occasionally hit a kernel panic when loading the qla2xxx driver.

Comment 5 Don Zickus 2008-12-02 22:20:34 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-125.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 6 Martin George 2008-12-03 13:56:02 UTC
Created attachment 325537 [details]
Kernel panic log

I hit the same kernel panic with the test kernel (2.6.18-125.el5).

Comment 9 Marcus Barrow 2008-12-05 03:29:03 UTC
Created attachment 325773 [details]
really correct 84xx init

Comment 10 Marcus Barrow 2008-12-05 03:30:00 UTC
updated version to 8.02.00.06.05.03-k

Comment 11 Martin George 2008-12-07 19:43:26 UTC
Created attachment 326052 [details]
Kernel panic log during qla2xxx unload

With the latest qla2xx driver v8.02.00.06.05.03-k, I did hit a kernel panic while unloading the driver. This is intermittent.

Comment 12 Don Zickus 2008-12-09 21:05:20 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-126.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 14 Marcus Barrow 2008-12-16 16:22:38 UTC
The last problem reported here by Martin George, "intermittent panic on driver unload" has been moved to a new BZ 476701.

The last patch entered here has been verified in 2.6.18-126.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:00:00 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html


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