Re: sym53c8xx_2 oops in lk 2.5.69-bk14

[Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:12:49PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> This oops in the sym53c8xx may have been recently
> introduced since I run rescan-scsi-bus.sh reasonably
> often. It locked my system solid, scrolled the useful
> part of the oops off the screen and put nothing in
> the log. Handwritten notes:

The scsi_host_hn_get is not doing a scsi_host_get, so any scsi_host_put
that follows can break things - for example causing the scsi_host to
disappear out from under us. See the scsi_proc.c usage.

Christoph's "give ->proc_info a struct Scsi_Host * parameter" patch got
rid of a lot of them (and is in scsi-miscs-2.5), but not in scsi_proc.c.

Looks like scsi_host_hn_get should always call scsi_host_get, but
scsi_find_host_by_num really has to change to use driver model iterators
(so its locking protection matches scsi_host_get), I assume this is a WIP
for Christoph or Mike but for now you could use a patch like this
(untested, on top of scsi-misc-2.5 or Christoph's changes):

===== drivers/scsi/hosts.c 1.65 vs edited =====
--- 1.65/drivers/scsi/hosts.c	Thu May 15 06:08:47 2003
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/hosts.c	Fri May 23 10:24:10 2003
@@ -534,8 +534,12 @@
  **/
 struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_hn_get(unsigned short host_no)
 {
-	/* XXX Inc ref count */
-	return scsi_find_host_by_num(host_no);
+	struct Scsi_Host *shost;
+
+	shost = scsi_find_host_by_num(host_no);
+	if (shost)
+		scsi_host_get(shost);
+	return shost;
 }
 
 /**

-- Patrick Mansfield