Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/08] scsi: fix hot unplug sequence

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 	When hot-unplugging using scsi_remove_host() function (as usb
> 	does), scsi_forget_host() used to be called before
> 	scsi_host_cancel().  So, the device gets removed first without
> 	request cleanup and scsi_host_cancel() never gets to call
> 	scsi_device_cancel() on the removed devices.  This results in
> 	premature completion of hot-unplugging process with active
> 	requests left in queue, eventually leading to hang/offlined
> 	device or oops when the active command times out.
> 
> 	This patch makes scsi_remove_host() call scsi_host_cancel()
> 	first such that the host is first transited into cancel state
> 	and all requests of all devices are killed, and then, the
> 	devices are removed.  This patch fixes the oops in eh after
> 	hot-unplugging bug.

This is actually simply reversing this patch:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=109268755500248

And all it does is give us the previous consequences back.

The oops isn't in the eh it's in the usb-storage eh routine.

However, the current host code does need fixing, but the fix is to move
it over to a proper state model rather than the current bit twiddling we
do.

James


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