Patch "scsi: lpfc: FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

scsi: lpfc: FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
scsi-lpfc-fcoe-vport-enable-disable-does-not-bring-up-the-vport.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: James Smart <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:07:25 -0800
Subject: scsi: lpfc: FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort

From: James Smart <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 104450eb08ca662e6b1d02da11aca9598e978f3e ]

FCoE VPort enable-disable does not bring up the VPort. VPI structure needed to be initialized before being re-registered.

---
 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_vport.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

@@ -528,6 +528,12 @@ enable_vport(struct fc_vport *fc_vport)
 
 	spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock);
 	vport->load_flag |= FC_LOADING;
+	if (vport->fc_flag & FC_VPORT_NEEDS_INIT_VPI) {
+		spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock);
+		lpfc_issue_init_vpi(vport);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	vport->fc_flag |= FC_VPORT_NEEDS_REG_VPI;
 	spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock);
 

@@ -548,6 +554,8 @@ enable_vport(struct fc_vport *fc_vport)
 	} else {
 		lpfc_vport_set_state(vport, FC_VPORT_FAILED);
 	}
+
+out:
 	lpfc_printf_vlog(vport, KERN_ERR, LOG_VPORT,
 			 "1827 Vport Enabled.\n");
 	return VPORT_OK;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/scsi-lpfc-clear-the-vendorversion-in-the-plogi-plogi-acc-payload.patch queue-4.4/scsi-lpfc-correct-host-name-in-symbolic_name-field.patch queue-4.4/scsi-lpfc-fcoe-vport-enable-disable-does-not-bring-up-the-vport.patch queue-4.4/scsi-lpfc-correct-issue-leading-to-oops-during-link-reset.patch queue-4.4/scsi-lpfc-add-missing-memory-barrier.patch