Re: exit_aio() hang after I/O failure

Jeff Moyer
2012-01-23T16:15:12Z

Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Apparently processes can hang in exit_aio() with at least kernel 3.2.1
> after an I/O failure. Has anyone seen this before ?
>
> This occurred after a SCSI device had been removed entirely (and hence
> after all I/O requests were killed by scsi_remove_host()).

Fixed here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69e4747ee9727d660b88d7e1efe0f4afcb35db1b

Cheers,
Jeff