Re: [PATCH SCSI] sr: check_events() ignore GET_EVENT when TUR says otherwise

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:33, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:03:48PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Some broken devices indicates that media has changed on every
>> GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION.  This translates into MEDIA_CHANGE
>> uevent on every open() which lets udev run into a loop.
>>
>> Verify GET_EVENT result against TUR and if it generates spurious
>> events for several times in a row, ignore the GET_EVENT events, and
>> trust only the TUR status.

> James, ping.

This is a rather urgent fix, that needs to go in, and also to -stable.

Systems run into endless loops with ever-growing event queues. Nothing
really works any more if we hit that condition, unless the (broken)
device is disconnected.

Thanks,
Kay
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