Hi Bart, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> writes: [...] > + if (shost_state != shost->shost_state) { > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); > + synchronize_rcu(); > + spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); > + } Plese correct me if I'm wrong, but once you drop the host lock all assumptions about states it protects are void, aren't they? -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850