On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 03:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 13:13 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > 3.8.13.22 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit e63ed0d7a98014fdfc2cfeb3f6dada313dcabb59 upstream.
> >
> > This patch eliminates the reap_ref and replaces it with a proper kref.
> > On last put of this kref, the target is removed from visibility in
> > sysfs. The final call to scsi_target_reap() for the device is done from
> > __scsi_remove_device() and only if the device was made visible. This
> > ensures that the target disappears as soon as the last device is gone
> > rather than waiting until final release of the device (which is often
> > too long).
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
>
> This and the next patch had the comment "delay backport by 2 months for
> field testing".
>
Yup, thanks very much for catching this Ben. I'll drop these two from
the 3.8-stable queue:
e63ed0d [SCSI] fix our current target reap infrastructure
f2495e2 [SCSI] dual scan thread bug fix
Luis, heads-up, looks like you have them queued for 3.11-stable too.
I note that our standard (and automated) procedure of stripping the "Cc:
stable" lines when applying to stable isn't helping us here. Useful
hints like this advisory from those patches often just go unnoticed:
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # delay backport for 2 months for field testing
I'll start thinking about how we can improve our scripts and procedures
so that we don't throw this info away.
-Kamal
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