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SubjectRe: [patch 04/38] [SCSI] put stricter guards on queue dead checks
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 <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
>
> 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 <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> ---
> 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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