Merde, this patch caused a problem with a system lockup. Please revert it. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > -----Original Message----- > From: James Bottomley [mailto:jejb@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:05 PM > To: Salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Salyzyn, Mark; James Bottomley; AACRAID > Subject: Patch added to scsi-misc-2.6: [SCSI] aacraid: fib > context lock for management ioctls > > Your commit: > > [SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls > > Alan noticed the lack of locking surrounding the driver's dealings > with the fib context managed by the trio of ioctls that > are used by > the RAID management applications to retrieve Adapter > Initiated FIBs. I > merely expanded the fib lock to include the fib context. > There have > been no field reports of any issues generally because the > applications > are relatively static and do not come and go often enough > to stress > this area. I bloated this patch a little with some space junk. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > has been added to the upstream SCSI tree > You can find it here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.g > it;a=commit;h=a119ee8ee3045bf559d4cf02d72b112f3de2a15b > > This patch is scheduled to be pushed when the merge window > opens for 2.6.25 > > James Bottomley > > P.S. If you find this email unwanted, set up a procmail rule > junking on > the header: > > X-Git-Tree: SCSI > - 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
