solved was Re: Linux 3.0 oopses when pulling a USB CDROM

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

> Would you like to try this patch to see if it fixes the problem?  As I 
> said before, I'm not certain it's the best thing to do, but it worked 
> on my system.

Sorry for the delay. I can confirm this patch fixes the problem for me.
I did a few pulls and all performed fine. Thanks!

-Andi
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Index: usb-3.0/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-3.0.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> +++ usb-3.0/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> @@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ int scsi_prep_fn(struct request_queue *q
>  	struct scsi_device *sdev = q->queuedata;
>  	int ret = BLKPREP_KILL;
>  
> +	if (!sdev)
> +		return ret;
>  	if (req->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC)
>  		ret = scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd(sdev, req);
>  	return scsi_prep_return(q, req, ret);
> Index: usb-3.0/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-3.0.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> +++ usb-3.0/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> @@ -322,6 +322,8 @@ static void scsi_device_dev_release_user
>  		kfree(evt);
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Freeing the queue signals to block that we're done */
> +	scsi_free_queue(sdev->request_queue);
>  	blk_put_queue(sdev->request_queue);
>  	/* NULL queue means the device can't be used */
>  	sdev->request_queue = NULL;
> @@ -936,8 +938,6 @@ void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_de
>  	/* cause the request function to reject all I/O requests */
>  	sdev->request_queue->queuedata = NULL;
>  
> -	/* Freeing the queue signals to block that we're done */
> -	scsi_free_queue(sdev->request_queue);
>  	put_device(dev);
>  }
>  
> 
> 

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