When dropping a lock while iterating a list we must restart the search
as other threads could have manipulated the list under us. Without this
we can get stuck in an endless loop.
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index b333389f..d3b34d8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1158,31 +1158,23 @@ static void __scsi_remove_target(struct scsi_target *starget)
void scsi_remove_target(struct device *dev)
{
struct Scsi_Host *shost = dev_to_shost(dev->parent);
- struct scsi_target *starget, *last = NULL;
+ struct scsi_target *starget;
unsigned long flags;
- /* remove targets being careful to lookup next entry before
- * deleting the last
- */
+restart:
spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
list_for_each_entry(starget, &shost->__targets, siblings) {
if (starget->state == STARGET_DEL)
continue;
if (starget->dev.parent == dev || &starget->dev == dev) {
- /* assuming new targets arrive at the end */
kref_get(&starget->reap_ref);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
- if (last)
- scsi_target_reap(last);
- last = starget;
__scsi_remove_target(starget);
- spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
+ scsi_target_reap(starget);
+ goto restart;
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
-
- if (last)
- scsi_target_reap(last);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_remove_target);
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