From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_debug: deadlock between completions and surprise module removal
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 07:44:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140906144406.GA25469@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540B1CC6.8010800@interlog.com>
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:40:06AM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> And they do call scsi_remove_host(). But they do that toward
> the end of their clean-up. The problem that I observed has
> already happened before that.
>
> IOW I think the QUEUE_FLAG_DYING state needs to be set and
> acknowledged as the first order of business by the code
> that implements 'rmmod LLD'.
That's how driver should implement their ->remove driver callback:
foo_remove()
{
scsi_remove_host()
< actual cleanup here>
scsi_host_put();
}
if a driver doesn't do that, thats a bug in the driver which needs
fixing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-06 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-31 23:09 [PATCH] scsi_debug: deadlock between completions and surprise module removal Douglas Gilbert
2014-09-01 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-01 19:52 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-09-05 5:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-05 13:56 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-09-05 15:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2014-09-06 14:40 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-09-06 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-08 9:11 ` Bart Van Assche
2014-09-08 15:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-08 20:31 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-09-09 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-25 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-03 18:16 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
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