Hi Greg,
Greg KH wrote:
2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
You probably don't want to add this patch to stable kernels
until commit c055f5b2614b4f from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
shows up in Linus' tree.
See details in http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1181665.html.
-- Jim
------------------
From: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
commit 86cbfb5607d4b81b1a993ff689bbd2addd5d3a9b upstream.
SCSI uses request_queue->queuedata == NULL as a signal that the queue
is dying. We set this state in the sdev release function. However,
this allows a small window where we release the last reference but
haven't quite got to this stage yet and so something will try to take
a reference in scsi_request_fn and oops. It's very rare, but we had a
report here, so we're pushing this as a bug fix
The actual fix is to set request_queue->queuedata to NULL in
scsi_remove_device() before we drop the reference. This causes
correct automatic rejects from scsi_request_fn as people who hold
additional references try to submit work and prevents anything from
getting a new reference to the sdev that way.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -322,14 +322,8 @@ static void scsi_device_dev_release_user
kfree(evt);
}
- if (sdev->request_queue) {
- sdev->request_queue->queuedata = NULL;
- /* user context needed to free queue */
- scsi_free_queue(sdev->request_queue);
- /* temporary expedient, try to catch use of queue lock
- * after free of sdev */
- sdev->request_queue = NULL;
- }
+ /* NULL queue means the device can't be used */
+ sdev->request_queue = NULL;
scsi_target_reap(scsi_target(sdev));
@@ -937,6 +931,12 @@ void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_de
if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
transport_destroy_device(dev);
+
+ /* cause the request function to reject all I/O requests */
+ sdev->request_queue->queuedata = NULL;
+
+ /* Freeing the queue signals to block that we're done */
+ scsi_free_queue(sdev->request_queue);
put_device(dev);
}
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