Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934192AbXK2W3d (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:29:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933075AbXK2W26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:28:58 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4549 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932977AbXK2W25 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:28:57 -0500 Message-ID: <474F3D27.8050200@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:28:55 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] base/class.c: prevent ooops due to insert/remove race (v3) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 30 Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > >>> So again, the problem is in the higher up scsi layer, and that is where >>> the problem should already be fixed. >> .. >> >> Ahhh.. so you figure the Oops should also have been fixed >> as part of the 2.6.24 SCSI fixes ? That's what I was missing here. > > Yes indeed. I wish I could point you to the exact patch containing the > fix, but the git software seems to have lost track of it (it's combined > in with a large number of other patches with no obvious way to separate > it out). It's also available in the various mailing list archives, but > I don't have a pointer to it and there's no reasonable way to search > for it. > > The patch in question was written by Matthew Wilcox; it added code to > the SCSI async-scanning routines to utilize the scan_mutex. IMO it > should have been applied to 2.6.23 but it wasn't. .. Ahh. Well, thanks for the *great* followup, Alan! Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/