Hi Greg / Patrick - I'm getting an oops with current (pulled today) 2.6 git, the device_for_each_child() does not seem to be deletion safe. We hold the klist in place via the n_ref, but the kobj (in the struct device for the struct scsi_target) containing it is freed when the kref->refcount goes to zero. Any fixes or ? I haven't found any relevant patches or similar oopses. The only (current) caller of scsi_remove_target() is in scsi_transport_fc.c, for scsi you could only hit this running with the emulex or qlogic drivers, but it could affect other replacements of list_for_each_entry_safe with device_for_each_child. The oops: [linux root]# Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=128 NUMA PSERIES LPAR Modules linked in: qla2300 qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_mod<7>kobject_get -> c00000001dfde390 kref c00000001dfde3ac mem: 33 tg3 evdev joydev ipv6 ohci_hcd usbcore dm_mod NIP: C00000000020C408 XER: 00000000 LR: C000000000394DB8 CTR: C0000000002106D0 REGS: c00000001414b240 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.13-rc1pm) MSR: 8000000000009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 CR: 24000422 DAR: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b7b DSISR: 0000000040000000 TASK: c000000002754030[12001] 'rmmod' THREAD: c000000014148000 CPU: 0 GPR00: C000000000394DAC C00000001414B4C0 C0000000005F4618 6B6B6B6B6B6B6B7B GPR04: 8000000000009032 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 0000000000000037 C0000000005111A4 GPR08: C000000000511198 C000000000514A60 C0000000006024D0 C0000000006023F0 GPR12: 0000000000000010 C0000000004B2000 0000000000000000 0000000010000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000010000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000800 0000000000000002 0000000000000880 00000000FFFA7AF0 GPR24: 00000000FFFAA320 0000000010013008 D0000000003D5460 D0000000003D53D8 GPR28: 6B6B6B6B6B6B6B63 C00000001414B5C0 C000000000582FB8 6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B NIP [c00000000020c408] .kref_get+0x0/0x28 LR [c000000000394db8] .klist_next+0x90/0x104 Call Trace: [c00000001414b4c0] [c000000000394dac] .klist_next+0x84/0x104 (unreliable) [c00000001414b550] [c00000000026c8e0] .device_for_each_child+0x7c/0xd0 [c00000001414b600] [d00000000030ac78] .scsi_remove_target+0xa8/0xe8 [scsi_mod] [c00000001414b690] [d0000000002c6898] .fc_rport_tgt_remove+0xb8/0xdc [scsi_transport_fc] [c00000001414b720] [d0000000002c6918] .fc_rport_terminate+0x5c/0xf0 [scsi_transport_fc] [c00000001414b7b0] [d0000000002c6b7c] .fc_remove_host+0x40/0xb8 [scsi_transport_fc] [c00000001414b830] [d0000000003e6a58] .qla2x00_remove_one+0x34/0x7c [qla2xxx] [c00000001414b8c0] [d0000000003b7010] .qla2300_remove_one+0x10/0x24 [qla2300] [c00000001414b940] [c00000000021bc88] .pci_device_remove+0x80/0x88 [c00000001414b9c0] [c00000000026efb0] .__device_release_driver+0xd4/0xdc [c00000001414ba50] [c00000000026f100] .driver_detach+0x148/0x14c [c00000001414baf0] [c00000000026e0d8] .bus_remove_driver+0xa0/0x128 [c00000001414bb90] [c00000000026f628] .driver_unregister+0x1c/0x40 [c00000001414bc20] [c00000000021bf58] .pci_unregister_driver+0x24/0xbc [c00000001414bcb0] [d0000000003b7068] .qla2300_exit+0x1c/0x34 [qla2300] [c00000001414bd30] [c000000000080014] .sys_delete_module+0x220/0x368 [c00000001414be30] [c00000000000d580] syscall_exit+0x0/0x18 Instruction dump: 4bfffd94 e89e8080 e87e80f0 4be4baad 60000000 4bffff60 e89e8080 e87e80c8 4bffffec 38000001 90030000 4e800020 <81230000> 2fa90000 7c000026 5400fffe -- Patrick Mansfield On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:59:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > [PATCH] Use device_for_each_child() to unregister devices in scsi_remove_target(). > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > > Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c > =================================================================== > > --- > commit 20b1e674230b642be662c5975923a0160ab9cbdc > tree 749e1384c57576bfbe3ffd1414df321cc783296f > parent 0293a509405dccecc30783a5d729d615b68d6a77 > author mochel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mochel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:03:59 -0800 > committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:15:19 -0700 > > drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 14 +++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c > --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c > @@ -669,6 +669,13 @@ void __scsi_remove_target(struct scsi_ta > scsi_target_reap(starget); > } > > +static int __remove_child (struct device * dev, void * data) > +{ > + if (scsi_is_target_device(dev)) > + __scsi_remove_target(to_scsi_target(dev)); > + return 0; > +} > + > /** > * scsi_remove_target - try to remove a target and all its devices > * @dev: generic starget or parent of generic stargets to be removed > @@ -679,7 +686,7 @@ void __scsi_remove_target(struct scsi_ta > */ > void scsi_remove_target(struct device *dev) > { > - struct device *rdev, *idev, *next; > + struct device *rdev; > > if (scsi_is_target_device(dev)) { > __scsi_remove_target(to_scsi_target(dev)); > @@ -687,10 +694,7 @@ void scsi_remove_target(struct device *d > } > > rdev = get_device(dev); > - list_for_each_entry_safe(idev, next, &dev->children, node) { > - if (scsi_is_target_device(idev)) > - __scsi_remove_target(to_scsi_target(idev)); > - } > + device_for_each_child(dev, NULL, __remove_child); > put_device(rdev); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_remove_target); - : 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