This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal" to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-scsi-fix-soft-lockup-in-scsi_remove_target-on-module-removal.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 305c2e71b3d733ec065cb716c76af7d554bd5571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 11:50:45 +0200 Subject: Revert "scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal" From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> commit 305c2e71b3d733ec065cb716c76af7d554bd5571 upstream. Now that we've done a more comprehensive fix with the intermediate target state we can remove the previous hack introduced with commit 90a88d6ef88e ("scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal"). Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -1366,19 +1366,17 @@ static void __scsi_remove_target(struct void scsi_remove_target(struct device *dev) { struct Scsi_Host *shost = dev_to_shost(dev->parent); - struct scsi_target *starget, *last_target = NULL; + struct scsi_target *starget; unsigned long flags; restart: spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry(starget, &shost->__targets, siblings) { if (starget->state == STARGET_DEL || - starget->state == STARGET_REMOVE || - starget == last_target) + starget->state == STARGET_REMOVE) continue; if (starget->dev.parent == dev || &starget->dev == dev) { kref_get(&starget->reap_ref); - last_target = starget; starget->state = STARGET_REMOVE; spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); __scsi_remove_target(starget); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jthumshirn@xxxxxxx are queue-4.6/mcb-fixed-bar-number-assignment-for-the-gdd.patch queue-4.6/revert-scsi-fix-soft-lockup-in-scsi_remove_target-on-module-removal.patch queue-4.6/scsi-add-intermediate-starget_remove-state-to-scsi_target_state.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html