Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:11:32 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] base/class.c: prevent ooops due to insert/remove race (v3) |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:07:58PM -0500, 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.
If someone can dig it out, and send it to stable@kernel.org, I'd be gladd to add it to the older kernel trees...
thanks,
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