Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:03, Alan Cox wrote:
> Second problem is with the scsi handling logic for errors. If you rmmod
> a scsi driver while it is error handling you get a chain of errors
> starting with
> 
> 	Illegal transition Cancel->Offline
> 	Badness is scsi_device_set_state
> 	path:
> 	scsi_device_set_state
> 	scsi_unjam_host
> 	scsi_error_handler
> 

These state transition warnings are currently expected in this code
(they're basically verbose warnings).

What was the oops?

I have a theory that we should be taking a device reference before
waking up the error handler, otherwise host removal can race with error
handling.

James


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