Patch 3 of 3 Jeff Garzik pointed me to his code to see how to remove a disk from the system _properly_. Well, here it is... Every place we remove disks we are now testing before calling del_gendisk or blk_cleanup_queue and then call put_disk. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- drivers/block/cciss.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -L cciss.c -puN /dev/null /dev/null diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss_del_gendisk_fixes drivers/block/cciss.c --- linux-2.6.14.2-save/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss_del_gendisk_fixes 2005-11-15 15:49:39.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.14.2-save-mikem/drivers/block/cciss.c 2005-11-18 10:54:52.459084088 -0600 @@ -1138,8 +1138,15 @@ static int revalidate_allvol(ctlr_info_t for(i=0; i< NWD; i++) { struct gendisk *disk = host->gendisk[i]; - if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) - del_gendisk(disk); + if (disk) { + request_queue_t *q = disk->queue; + + if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) + del_gendisk(disk); + if (q) + blk_cleanup_queue(q); + put_disk(disk); + } } /* @@ -1453,10 +1460,13 @@ static int deregister_disk(struct gendis * allows us to delete disk zero but keep the controller registered. */ if (h->gendisk[0] != disk){ - if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP){ - blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue); - del_gendisk(disk); - drv->queue = NULL; + if (disk) { + request_queue_t *q = disk->queue; + if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) + del_gendisk(disk); + if (q) + blk_cleanup_queue(q); + put_disk(disk); } } @@ -3094,9 +3104,14 @@ static void __devexit cciss_remove_one ( /* remove it from the disk list */ for (j = 0; j < NWD; j++) { struct gendisk *disk = hba[i]->gendisk[j]; - if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) { - del_gendisk(disk); - blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue); + if (disk) { + request_queue_t *q = disk->queue; + + if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) + del_gendisk(disk); + if (q) + blk_cleanup_queue(q); + put_disk(disk); } } - : 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