Re: Linux 3.0 oopses when pulling a USB CDROM

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On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:04:54PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 01:37:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > The second bug, which hit me but apparently not any of you, is that the 
> > > request_queue's elevator gets deallocated while it is still in use.  
> > > That's because __scsi_remove_device() calls scsi_free_queue(), which 
> > > does blk_cleanup_queue(), which calls elevator_exit(), even though the 
> > > device file is still open and more requests will be submitted when the 
> > > file is closed.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure of the right fix for this.  One possibility is to move the 
> > > scsi_free_queue() call to scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext().  Or 
> > > maybe the elevator_exit() call should be moved to blk_release_queue().
> > > 
> > > Also, I have no idea why this shows up with USB drives but not other 
> > > SCSI transports.  A fluke of timing?
> > 
> > FWIW, I reported a bug where the request_queue's elevator got deallocated
> > while it was still in use (fc transport with device hotplug):
> > 
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg52879.html
> 
> That does sound like the second bug I encountered.  Can you reproduce 
> it?  Does the patch here:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130963676907731&w=2
> 
> fix the problem?

I used to be reproducible, however I have to ask Manvathara to try your
patch and see if it works.

Thanks!
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