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

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On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 16:35 +0200, 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.
> 
> Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

I have an official acknowledge from the original author that a 48h long
term test on their side didn't reproduce the lockup as well.

James can we please get the patch included in 4.4 and stable?

Thanks
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