Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:04:29 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] limit recursion when flushing shost->starved_list |
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On Sat, Aug 19 2006, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:31 +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > Attached is a patch that should limit a possible recursion that can > > lead to a stack overflow like follows: > > Well, OK, initially I'll put this in scsi-misc, since I acknowledge its > a problem. However, it is one that block queue grouping should be able > to get us out of ... and at that time, this code (and most of the > starved list handling) should exit the scsi mid-layer.
Yep, the patch is a little nasty but I don't see a better way currently. So the above outline sounds good to me.
-- Jens Axboe
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