Le jeudi 07 mars 2013 à 13:48 +0100, Jean Delvare a écrit : > Hi Joe, > > Thanks for your fast answer. > > Le vendredi 22 février 2013 à 10:30 -0500, Joe Lawrence a écrit : > > I remember finding an st module load/unload kref accounting bug a while > > ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/77539 I replied to the > > report with a hack-patch that grabbed an extra reference to avoid the > > crash. > > > > There was an attempt at fixing this up in the block layer [1] but that > > change was pulled when problems were found with that patch [2]. > > > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/27/354 > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/22/113 > > > > Maybe this is the same bug? > > Seems so. Meanwhile I saw you posted an update at: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=136249932603011&w=2 > > I have tested this patch successfully, and apparently others have as > well, so I would suggest to get this upstream ASAP. I think this fix is > a candidate for stable kernel series as well. > > Note for backporters: the value returned by blk_get_queue() changed in > kernel 3.3, so care must be taken when backporting the fix to kernel 3.2 > or older, otherwise success becomes failure and vice versa. James, this patch got successfully tested and positively reviewed. Can you please queue it and push it upstream? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- 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
