On 04/10/2012 03:16 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 04/10/12 01:22, Elric Fu wrote:
>
>> After debugging the code, I found the issue happened while the driver ran to
>> line 782 in scsi_send_eh_cmnd().
>>
>> 778 static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd, unsigned char *cmnd,
>> 779 int cmnd_size, int timeout, unsigned
>> sense_bytes)
>> 780 {
>> 781 struct scsi_device *sdev = scmd->device;
>> 782 struct scsi_driver *sdrv = scsi_cmd_to_driver(scmd);
>> 783 struct Scsi_Host *shost = sdev->host;
>> 784 DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
>> 785 unsigned long timeleft;
>> 786 struct scsi_eh_save ses;
>> 787 int rtn;
>>
>> I know the code is submitted by you. I don't familiar with the scsi core.
>> It seems like the conversion process from scsi command to scsi driver
>> encounter a NULL pointer. Any idea?
>
>
> I have observed crashes at the same point while testing device removal
> with the ib_srp driver. As far as I can see that code was added through
> commit 18a4d0a22ed6c54b67af7718c305cd010f09ddf8 (February 9, 2012). The
> approach of that patch looks questionable to me: what guarantees that
> the struct scsi_driver will be available at the time the SCSI error
> handler needs it ?
If a scsi scan IO timesout then the driver will not be set yet. It is ok
to use scsi_cmd_to_driver in scsi_finish_cmd because of the req block pc
check (scsi scan IO set that flag and so do not hit that path).
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