Re: [PATCH] scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target

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On 10/19/2015 07:35 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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.

Hello Christoph,

Thanks for looking into this. However, I think we need a motivation in the patch description why this patch does not reintroduce the soft lockup documented in patch "scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove" (commit bc3f02a795d3).

Thanks,

Bart.
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