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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 25/45] SCSI: sg: fix races during device removal
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chris Wright wrote:
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> From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
> 
> upstream commit: c6517b7942fad663cc1cf3235cbe4207cf769332
> 
> sg has the following problems related to device removal:

Hmm. Is this a new problem to 2.6.29?

The patch is pretty big (certainly _way_ over the official -stable limit), 
and I don't know how critical or new this bug was. I doubt it has gotten 
much testing in the development branch either, yet.

So please convince me that this shouldn't wait a bit, or at least point me 
to the problem reports to convince me that the size limit should be 
ignored.

		Linus
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