From: Dan Williams Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: fix hot unplug vs async scan race X-Git-Tag: v3.2.25~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f60c4d00f7e25849c1e743cf66fde70bdac63dae;p=pandora-kernel.git fix hot unplug vs async scan race commit 3b661a92e869ebe2358de8f4b3230ad84f7fce51 upstream. The following crash results from cases where the end_device has been removed before scsi_sysfs_add_sdev has had a chance to run. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098 IP: [] sysfs_create_dir+0x32/0xb6 ... Call Trace: [] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x1e3 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x56 [] ? module_refcount+0x89/0xa0 [] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 ...teach scsi_sysfs_add_devices() to check for deleted devices() before trying to add them, and teach scsi_remove_target() how to remove targets that have not been added via device_add(). Reported-by: Dariusz Majchrzak Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed