On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:04:24AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 18:50 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 17:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let 
> > > > us know.
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------
> > > > 
> > > > From: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com>
> > > > 
> > > > commit bfe159a51203c15d23cb3158fffdc25ec4b4dda1 upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > USB surprise removal of sr is triggering an oops in
> > > > scsi_dispatch_command().  What seems to be happening is that USB is
> > > > hanging on to a queue reference until the last close of the upper
> > > > device, so the crash is caused by surprise remove of a mounted CD
> > > > followed by attempted unmount.
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > This has been reported in 2.6.39.y and 3.0, but not in 2.6.32.y.
> > 
> > That is, AFAIK.
> 
> Oops, good catch, I've dropped this from the .32 and .33 queue now, it's
> not needed there at all.
 
Well, it is entirely possible that I am confusing multiple bugs (I
actualy attempted to delete this message from my outgoing mail queue
as I was becoming less confident about it).  I assume James can
confirm one way or the other.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus

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