RE: Patch added to scsi-misc-2.6: [SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls

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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
>
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