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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Ewan D. Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:45:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329074535.GA30098@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458834164.17965.74.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:42:44AM -0400, Ewan D. Milne wrote:
> This looks fine.  Do we still need 90a88d6ef (scsi: fix soft lockup in
> scsi_remove_target() on module removal) or can that be reverted now,
> since the STARGET_REMOVE state will allow the iteration to continue?

Yes, that stale pointer check is something I'd really, really prefer
not to have around in the long run.

Otherwise the patch looks like the right direction to me.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-24  9:56 [PATCH] scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state Johannes Thumshirn
2016-03-24 15:42 ` Ewan D. Milne
2016-03-29  7:20   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-03-29  7:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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