Re: 2.6.7-mm4: regression: ieee1394: sbp2: null pointer dereference

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:01:10AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> > 2.6.7-mm4 oopses when confronted with an unresponsive iee1394 disk.
> 
> (Andrew helpfully forwarded this to 1394-dev. Thanks.)
> 
> Further tests show that the problem just shows up more reliably (if that's
> the word...) under -mm4. However, I just got the error on plain 2.6.7.

This oops traces back into the scsi stack, right? The spaghetti of
trying to get things to work right with the scsi stack is getting to be
a pain. I guess USB doesn't have too many problems since it does a
scsi-host per device, but that's not as easy with sbp2 and 1394, since a
single sbp2 device can have multiple LUN's, and it's just easier to
treat that as one scsi host.

I can't reproduce it, but I'll try to get into the logic of sbp2 device
removal again to see if I can find out where and why this is occuring.

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