Re: [PATCH 0/2] target refcounting infrastructure fixes for usb

Sarah Sharp
2014-03-06T23:18:27Z

Hi James,

Sorry for the extremely late ack. These patches work fine when applied
against 3.14-rc5, and I can't trigger the oops anymore. Hans' UAS
patches are going to be queued for 3.15. Any chance of these patches
making it into 3.15 as well?

Sarah Sharp

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 06:58:39AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> After about 3 iterations as an RFC, I'm elevating this to a patch. If
> it works, I'll try for this merge window with a delayed backport to
> stable (after the next kernel release to make sure no bugs got
> introduced).
>
> This set should fix our target problems with USB by making the target
> visibility properly reference counted.
>
> James Bottomley (2):
> [SCSI] fix our current target reap infrastructure.
> [SCSI] dual scan thread bug fix
>
> drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 20 +++++---
> include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 3 +-
> 3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
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> 1.8.4.3
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