On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:17:57PM +0100, Swen Schillig wrote: > From: Swen Schillig <swen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Invalid locking order. Kernel hangs after trying to take two locks > which are dependend on each other. Introducing temporary variable > to free requests. Free lock after requests are copied. > I am just curious. You didn't mention which locks are causing the dead lock. I've glanced through the code and it seems that locking order of abort_lock and req_list_lock for adapters is inconsistent. Is that the bug you try to fix? Regards, Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: 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