[SCSI] mpt2sas: fix infinite loop inside config request

This restriction is introduced just to avoid loop of
config_request. Retry must be limited so we have restricted
config request to maximum 2 times.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_config.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_config.c
index 58cfb97846f7..1c6658c60239 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_config.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_config.c
@@ -247,6 +247,12 @@ _config_request(struct MPT2SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, Mpi2ConfigRequest_t
         retry_count = 0;
 
  retry_config:
+        if (retry_count) {
+                if (retry_count > 2) /* attempt only 2 retries */
+                        return -EFAULT;
+                printk(MPT2SAS_INFO_FMT "%s: attempting retry (%d)\n",
+                    ioc->name, __func__, retry_count);
+        }
         wait_state_count = 0;
         ioc_state = mpt2sas_base_get_iocstate(ioc, 1);
         while (ioc_state != MPI2_IOC_STATE_OPERATIONAL) {