On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:22 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > James & Arjan: > > Am I missing something here? It looks like > > fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous > > has introduced a bug in the sd probing code. AFAICT, there is now > nothing to prevent do_scan_async() from returning before > sd_probe_async() has run. True, but this isn't really a problem. > Doesn't this mean that there's nothing to prevent sd_remove() from > being called and trying to unregister the disk _before_ > sd_probe_async() has managed to register it? Yes, we've been discussing this ... most of the removal functions now need async_synchronize calls to mitigate this type of race. 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
