Changing the state of a SCSI device via sysfs into "cancel", "cancel-offline" or "deleted" prevents removal of these devices by scsi_remove_host(). Hence do not allow this. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Milburn <dmilburn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c index 9a5cde9..c6276ec 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -635,10 +635,9 @@ store_state_field(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, break; } } - if (!state) - return -EINVAL; - - if (scsi_device_set_state(sdev, state)) + if (state == 0 || state == SDEV_CANCEL || + state == SDEV_CANCEL_OFFLINE || state == SDEV_DEL || + scsi_device_set_state(sdev, state) != 0) return -EINVAL; return count; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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