On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Yang Bai <hamo.by@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > During revalidating, if sd card is removed, scsi_device > will be NULL, so we should not revalidate or it will cause > a panic. > This problem is report at: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1250235 > > Signed-off-by: Yang Bai <hamo.by@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/scsi/sd.c | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c > index c691fb5..470339c 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c > @@ -2370,10 +2370,10 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk) > "sd_revalidate_disk\n")); > > /* > - * If the device is offline, don't try and read capacity or any > + * If the device is removed or offline, don't try and read capacity or any > * of the other niceties. > */ > - if (!scsi_device_online(sdp)) > + if (!sdp || !scsi_device_online(sdp)) > goto out; > > buffer = kmalloc(SD_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); > -- > 1.7.9 > Is this the right way to solve this problem? Or should we add a lock to this struct to protect it? -- """ Keep It Simple,Stupid. """ Chinese Name: 白杨 Nick Name: Hamo Homepage: http://hamobai.com/ GPG KEY ID: 0xA4691A33 Key fingerprint = 09D5 2D78 8E2B 0995 CF8E 4331 33C4 3D24 A469 1A33 -- 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