On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:52 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 16:42 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote: >> Yeah - that makes sense. By that logic, looks like we can only disallow >> for SDEV_DEL (if we decide to do that check here). > > I don't think this is the root cause. I think q is non-NULL but has > already been released, so we're just getting a NULL deref on the actual > list head. > > Does this fix it? It adds the refcounting at approximately the correct > places. Of course, we'll now be trying elevator operations on an extant > queue but one whose elevator functions have been destroyed, so there are > probably additional state guards to place. [ Resend with URL - I got a bounce back from vger for attaching the OOPS JPEG ] It doesn't seem to help. Machine locked up and I was dropped to text console. I could only capture the oops by a camera. OOPS available at below URLs [*] Parag [*] https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yccmqaz3xwumwjvecb-b0pTdDOYIfFRksMrZBIo-Inw?feat=directlink [*] https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Lim6d3b8p7Lj4D3nHmkbFJTdDOYIfFRksMrZBIo-Inw?feat=directlink -- 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