Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb-storage autosuspend bug?

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:00:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it's a refcounting problem.  My guess is that the 
> > underlying cause is the bug in your urb->status removal patch for 
> > usb_start_wait_urb() -- the one I fixed here:
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=118531582013355&w=2
> > 
> > Of course, my guess could be wrong.  I haven't tried to recreate 
> > Linus's bug with that patch reverted.  But with the patch present I was 
> > not able to duplicate the bug.
> 
> I finally got around to testing this, and while I still have problems with 
> that reader, I can't reproduce the oops with that patch in place either.
> 
> Of course, I only ever saw the oops once, so I really don't know how 
> reproducible it was. Maybe you have to remove the USB reader at _just_ the 
> right moment. But I did get
> 
> 	...
> 	usb 2-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> 	usb 2-6: USB disconnect, address 4
> 	sd 6:0:0:1: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
> 	end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1999855
> 	...
> 	scsi 6:0:0:1: rejecting I/O to dead device
> 
> so the testing was done with the kind of behaviour that resulted in an 
> oops and a dead khubd last time around.
> 
> So I guess I'll ack the patch for whatever that is worth.

Ok, the patch is in the series I just sent to you.

If you run into that bug again, please let us know.

thanks,

greg k-h
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