scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:35:46 +0000 (16:35 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:48:23 +0000 (12:48 +0000)
commit67022ef102acafab56301d3e87ba7c4a3ee1b406
tree10625bb3b9e0336bb13d59659970755080fe5693
parent785381e98b73f87174d78b0ae4ba799a32eb882f
scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target

commit 40998193560dab6c3ce8d25f4fa58a23e252ef38 upstream.

When dropping a lock while iterating a list we must restart the search
as other threads could have manipulated the list under us.  Without this
we can get stuck in an endless loop.  This bug was introduced by

commit bc3f02a795d3b4faa99d37390174be2a75d091bd
Author: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 28 22:12:10 2012 -0700

    [SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove

Which was itself trying to fix a reported soft lockup issue

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1348679

However, we believe even with this revert of the original patch, the soft
lockup problem has been fixed by

commit f2495e228fce9f9cec84367547813cbb0d6db15a
Author: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 07:01:41 2014 -0800

    [SCSI] dual scan thread bug fix

Thanks go to Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> for tracking all this
prior history down.

Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Fixes: bc3f02a795d3b4faa99d37390174be2a75d091bd
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c