From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 25/33] Fix the reproducible oops in scsi Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:39:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20070206113942.afbc019b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200702060040.l160e04u005027@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1170775326.3634.14.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:47895 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752295AbXBFTj6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:39:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1170775326.3634.14.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, James.Smart@Emulex.Com On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:22:06 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:38 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > From: OGAWA Hirofumi > > > > I got the oops after some hotplug events. And the similar oops can > > reproduce by the following step. > > James Smart already pointed out that this fix isn't valid ... it's a > bandaid that doesn't fix the underlying problem. > That's why I included his comments in the changelog. Is anyone going to fix it for real? Do we know _how_ it should be fixed?