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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com"
	<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re:  __elv_add_request OOPS]
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:02:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDD5240.2060308@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimZi6rPSA-1OX+ZAh3135SMpDcHKg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2011-05-25 20:55, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Below patch pushes the check down to ioctl functions and hopefully should
>> cover more ioctl-on-gone-device cases by returning -ENXIO if an attempt
>> was made to submit request to a non-running device.
> 
> Can we please not duplicate complicated logic like that?
> 
> IOW, just make a helper function for it.
> 
> That said, isn't this all *exactly* what scsi_prep_state_check() is
> supposed to check for? Why isn't that called, or if called, why isn't
> it doing the right thing?

This is before you get that far, it's actually oopsing on inserting the
request on sdev->sdev_queue that is now NULL. The prep state checking
happens when sr/sd pulls the request off the queue for processing.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.2.02.1105232329040.1910@natty-nar>
2011-05-24 10:44 ` __elv_add_request OOPS Jens Axboe
2011-05-25  1:41   ` [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re: __elv_add_request OOPS] Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25  7:37     ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 18:44       ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 18:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 19:02           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-05-25 19:13             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 19:17               ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 19:52                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:03                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 20:18                     ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:26                       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 20:42                         ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:52                           ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 23:00                             ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 23:14                               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 23:45                                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 23:52                                   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                               ` <1306370123.1641.76.camel@mulgrave.site>
2011-05-26  1:01                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-26  1:06                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-05-26  1:43                                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-27  3:53                             ` James Bottomley
2011-05-27  5:43                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-27 20:21                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-28 12:42                                   ` Jens Axboe
2011-06-08  6:50                                   ` Torsten Hilbrich
2011-05-25 20:20                     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 20:22                       ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:29                         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 20:26   ` __elv_add_request OOPS James Bottomley

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