Re: [PATCH] SCSI core: fix leakage of scsi_cmnd's

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On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:00 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:49 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > This hasn't been tested very thoroughly, so please look through it 
> > > carefully.
> > 
> > Actually, just one problem and one cosmetic fix:
> > 
> > 1) We need to dequeue for the loop and kill case (it seems easiest
> > simply to dequeue in the scsi_kill_request() routine)
> > 2) There's no real need to drop the queue lock.  __scsi_done() is lock
> > agnostic, so since there's no requirement, let's just leave it in to
> > avoid any locking issues.
> 
> Have you applied this to any publicly-accessible tree yet?  I looked at 
> the git browsers on parisc-linux.org and kernel.org, but the patch doesn't 
> seem to be there yet.

Yes, they should both be in 2.6.14-rc1

> For that matter, what about the other patches you agreed to take (as543 - 
> as546)?  They aren't in the git repositories either.  It would be good if 
> all these things could be ready in time for the next -mm release.

That I think was these [from the latest GIT PATCH email]:

> Alan Stern:
>   o Fix module removal/device add race
>   o fix callers of scsi_remove_device() who already hold the scan
> muted
>   o add missing scan mutex to scsi_scan_target()

James


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