* James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks ... it looks like we may have trouble from devices that alter > the unchecked isa dma flag after scsi_host_alloc. The guilty parties > appear to be gdth, eata, u14-34f, ultrastor, BusLogic and advansys. > > The trouble is that if you alloc the host with it one way and free it > with it the other, the wrong freelist is used and the ref counts are > invalid. > > Try this pseudo fix: it avoids allocating the freelist until add time > (by which time they should all have fixed the flag). It still doesn't > change the fact that the host is allocated in the wrong region, but > that shouldn't matter too much. ok - do you intend to push this pseudo-fix upstream? If yes then please consider it fixed as far as i'm concerned - i'll re-reply if the warning resurfaces (it wasnt lethal to the bootup otherwise). Or if you've got some other approach/fix then i can test that too. Ingo -- 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
