[PATCH 05/15] lpfc: Fix NVMEI driver not decrementing counter causing bad rport state.

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 05/10/2017 09:07 PM, James Smart wrote:
> During driver boot, a latency in the NVMET driver
> side causes the incoming NVMEI PRLI to get rejected by the
> NVMET driver.  When this happens, the NVMEI driver runs
> out of PRLI retries.  Bouncing the link does not fix the
> situation.
> 
> If the NVMEI driver decides, on PRLI completion
> failures, to retry the PRLI, always decrement the
> fc4_prli_sent counter.  This allows the PRLI completion
> to resolve to UNMAPPED when NVMET rejects the PRLI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy at broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart at broadcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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