On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:33 +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > This patch fixes race on dpc_thread field of struct scsi_qla_host, > which can lead to crash on the module unload. > > This patch is against 2.6.26 I'm afraid adding a lock is almost certainly the wrong way to handle this type of failure. What should be done is to make sure the qla is correctly shut down (i.e. no tasks requiring the dpc_thread can be performed) *before* killing the thread ... it sounds like shutdown is slightly broken in the current driver ... could you post the oops details and we can try to work out what the problem is James -- 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
