From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20151019155658.GA11453@lst.de> References: <20151019143546.GA7486@lst.de> <56250DF7.6050803@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:54242 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbbJSP5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:57:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56250DF7.6050803@sandisk.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jthumshirn@suse.de, Dan Williams On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:36:23AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Thanks for looking into this. However, I think we need a motivation in the > patch description why this patch does not reintroduce the soft lockup > documented in patch "scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot > remove" (commit bc3f02a795d3). Interesting. I tried to find the original report and what state changes would cause an endless loop here. Dan, do you remember any details about this bug report?