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    SubjectRe: Linux 3.0 oopses when pulling a USB CDROM
    On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Heiko Carstens wrote:

    > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 01:37:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
    > > The second bug, which hit me but apparently not any of you, is that the
    > > request_queue's elevator gets deallocated while it is still in use.
    > > That's because __scsi_remove_device() calls scsi_free_queue(), which
    > > does blk_cleanup_queue(), which calls elevator_exit(), even though the
    > > device file is still open and more requests will be submitted when the
    > > file is closed.
    > >
    > > I'm not sure of the right fix for this. One possibility is to move the
    > > scsi_free_queue() call to scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext(). Or
    > > maybe the elevator_exit() call should be moved to blk_release_queue().
    > >
    > > Also, I have no idea why this shows up with USB drives but not other
    > > SCSI transports. A fluke of timing?
    >
    > FWIW, I reported a bug where the request_queue's elevator got deallocated
    > while it was still in use (fc transport with device hotplug):
    >
    > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg52879.html

    That does sound like the second bug I encountered. Can you reproduce
    it? Does the patch here:

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130963676907731&w=2

    fix the problem?

    Alan Stern



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