The patch titled cciss: fix the termination of the scanning thread has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cciss: fix the termination of the scanning thread From: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> scan_thread may be block in wait_for_completion(), and kthread_stop() is not sufficient to break a wait_for_completion(). Add the needed complete(). This should fix hangs which some testers reported. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread drivers/block/cciss.c --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread +++ a/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -4115,6 +4115,7 @@ static void __devexit cciss_remove_one(s return; } + complete(hba[i]->rescan_wait); kthread_stop(hba[i]->cciss_scan_thread); remove_proc_entry(hba[i]->devname, proc_cciss); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.miller@xxxxxx are origin.patch cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html