Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 2/2] scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state

Sebastian Herbszt
2016-03-30T21:44:56Z

Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state to avoid running
> into the BUG_ON() in scsi_target_reap().
>
> This intermediate state is only valid in the path from scsi_remove_target() to
> scsi_target_destroy() indicating this target is going to be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> Fixes: 40998193560dab6c3ce8d25f4fa58a23e252ef38
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Changes from v1:
> * The state transition from STARGET_CREATED to STARGET_DEL is legitimate,
> so don't BUG() on it. Found by the 0-Day Bot.

This is yet another attempt to fix 40998193560d. Can you please explain how
it is "superior" to the one proposed by Bart before [1] ?

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145227191917602&w=2

Sebastian