[SCSI] sd name space exhaustion causes system hang
authorMichael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:20:22 +0000 (11:20 -0500)
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:16:28 +0000 (17:16 -0500)
Following a site power outage which re-enabled all the ports on my FC
switches, my system subsequently booted with far too many luns!  I had
let it run hoping it would make multi-user.  It didn't.  :(  It hung solid
after exhausting the last sd device, sdzzz, and attempting to create sdaaaa
and beyond.  I was unable to get a dump.

Discovered using a 2.6.32.13 based system.

correct this by detecting when the last index is utilized and failing
the sd probe of the device.  Patch applies to scsi-misc-2.6.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

No differences found