A single fix for a race introduced by a fix that went up in 5.14-rc5. The patch is available here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-fixes The short changelog is: Li Jinlin (1): scsi: core: Fix hang of freezing queue between blocking and running device And the diffstat: drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) With full diff below. James --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c index ae9bfc658203..c0d31119d6d7 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -808,12 +808,15 @@ store_state_field(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, ret = scsi_device_set_state(sdev, state); /* * If the device state changes to SDEV_RUNNING, we need to - * rescan the device to revalidate it, and run the queue to - * avoid I/O hang. + * run the queue to avoid I/O hang, and rescan the device + * to revalidate it. Running the queue first is necessary + * because another thread may be waiting inside + * blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait() and because that call may be + * waiting for pending I/O to finish. */ if (ret == 0 && state == SDEV_RUNNING) { - scsi_rescan_device(dev); blk_mq_run_hw_queues(sdev->request_queue, true); + scsi_rescan_device(dev); } mutex_unlock(&sdev->state_mutex);