From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: fix locking around blk_abort_request()
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:52:31 -0400
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On 04/14/2010 07:57 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> blk_abort_request() expectes queue lock to be held by the caller.
> Grab it before calling the function.
>
> Lack of this synchronization led to infinite loop on corrupt
> q->timeout_list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo<tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jens Axboe<axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
>   drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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