Hello Martin, This patch series avoids that SCSI device removal through sysfs triggers a deadlock. Please consider this patch series for the v4.19 kernel. Thanks, Bart. Bart Van Assche (2): sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection() Avoid that SCSI device removal through sysfs triggers a deadlock drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++-- fs/sysfs/file.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/sysfs.h | 14 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0