On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:11 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > This means that scsi_target_reap can be called and the __targets list > changed essentially at any time (subject only to the host_lock). Hence it > is impossible for scsi_forget_host to iterate through the list of targets > belonging to the host: While it is working to remove one target, the next > target on the list (stored in the tmp variable) might be removed by > another thread. It's no better nor worse than we already have. As has been said many times before, we need a proper host state model. > In fact there doesn't seem to be any safe way to remove all the targets > from a host. And what's to prevent scsi_target_reap being called twice > for the same target? The usage, if you look at the code ... it's alloc/reap or inc reap_ref/reap James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
