ed in qla2x00_do_dpc(). The problem port has its drport pointer set, but it has never been processed by the driver to inform the fc transport that the port has been lost. qla2x00_schedule_rport_del() sets drport, and then sets the FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED bit. In qla2x00_do_dpc(), the port lists are walked and any drport pointer is handled and the fc transport informed of the port loss, then the FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED bit is cleared. This leaves a race where the dpc thread is processing one port removal, another port removal is marked with a call to qla2x00_schedule_rport_del(), and the dpc thread clears the bit for both removals, even though only the first removal was actually handled. Until another event occurs to set FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED, the later port removal is never finished and qla2xxx stays in a bad state which causes requests to become stuck on request queues. This patch updates the driver to test and clear FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED atomically. This ensures the port state changes are processed and not lost. Signed-off-by: David Jeffery Signed-off-by: Chad Dupuis Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap Signed-off-by: James Bottomley [@x