On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: .. > > qla2x00_probe_one() has called qla2x00_free_device() and > qla2x00_free_device() has locked up in > wait_for_completion(&ha->dpc_exited); > > Presumably, ha->dpc_exited is not initialised yet. > > The first `goto probe_failed' in qla2x00_probe_one() will cause > qla2x00_free_device() to run wait_for_completion() against an uninitialised > completion struct. Because ha->dpc_pid will be >= 0. > > This patch might fix the lockup, but if so, qla2x00_iospace_config() > failed. Please debug that a bit for us? Yes. This patch helped. Due to power failures, my disk trays are powered off. qla2x00_iospace_config() is failing and causing the panic on -mm kernel. For odd reasons, older -mm kernels & mainline kernels doesn't panic. Thanks, Badari - : 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