[ewg] [PATCH] ib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlock

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Oct 15 06:28:03 PDT 2012


On 10/12/2012 02:03 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Avoid that scsi_remove_host() is invoked from the context of a work
> queue thread on which work has been queued that scsi_remove_host()
> might be waiting for. That avoids that module removal of ib_srp
> triggers a deadlock on a pre-2.6.36 kernel. This patch has been
> tested on RHEL 6.1, RHEL 6.2, RHEL 6.3 and SLES 11 SP2.
>
> Reported-by: Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
> ---

Applied,

Regards,
Vladimir




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