Re: [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re:__elv_add_request OOPS]

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:03 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +static inline int sdev_early_check(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> > +{
> > +       if (!sdev || sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL
> > +               || sdev->sdev_state > SDEV_QUIESCE)
> > +               return -ENXIO;
> > +       return 0;
> > +}
> 
> Can somebody explain why it's those states, and nothing else?

The states are definitely wrong.  QUIESCE shouldn't cause an error.

Can we back up a bit.  I agree with Jens that sdev->request_queue looks
to be NULL, but that *only* happens in the final sdev release, so this
must be a refcounting problem higher up the stack.  Something is holding
an unrefcounted pointer to the sdev.

James


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