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: [<ffffffff8115e100>] sysfs_create_dir+0x32/0xb6 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125e4a8>] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x1e3 [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8125e641>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8125e70b>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8131122b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [<ffffffff814b65ea>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x56 [<ffffffff8107de15>] ? module_refcount+0x89/0xa0 [<ffffffff8132f348>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [<ffffffff8132dcbb>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 ...teach sas_rphy_remove to wait for async scanning to quiesce before removing the end_device. It seems this is a more general problem [1], but this patch only addresses sas transport. [1]: 23edb6e [SCSI] mpt2sas: Do not set sas_device->starget to NULL from the slave_destroy callback when all the LUNS have been deleted Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c index f7565fc..47abb90 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c @@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ #include <linux/bsg.h> #include <scsi/scsi.h> -#include <scsi/scsi_device.h> #include <scsi/scsi_host.h> +#include <scsi/scsi_scan.h> +#include <scsi/scsi_device.h> #include <scsi/scsi_transport.h> #include <scsi/scsi_transport_sas.h> @@ -1667,6 +1668,9 @@ sas_rphy_remove(struct sas_rphy *rphy) { struct device *dev = &rphy->dev; + /* prevent device_del() while child device_add() may be in-flight */ + scsi_complete_async_scans(); + switch (rphy->identify.device_type) { case SAS_END_DEVICE: scsi_remove_target(dev); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html