4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d2a145252c52792bc59e4767b486b26c430af4bb upstream. A race between scanning and fc_remote_port_delete() may result in a permanent stop if the device gets blocked before scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() and unblocked after. The reason is that blocking a device sets both the SDEV_BLOCKED state and the QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED. However, scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() unconditionally sets SDEV_RUNNING which causes the device to be ignored by scsi_target_unblock() and thus never have its QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED cleared leading to a device which is apparently running but has a stopped queue. We actually have two places where SDEV_RUNNING is set: once in scsi_add_lun() which respects the blocked flag and once in scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() which doesn't. Since the second set is entirely spurious, simply remove it to fix the problem. Reported-by: Zengxi Chen <chenzengxi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -1031,10 +1031,6 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_devi struct request_queue *rq = sdev->request_queue; struct scsi_target *starget = sdev->sdev_target; - error = scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_RUNNING); - if (error) - return error; - error = scsi_target_add(starget); if (error) return error; -- 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