Re: [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re: __elv_add_requestOOPS]

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed May 25 2011 - 15:02:34 EST


On 2011-05-25 20:55, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Below patch pushes the check down to ioctl functions and hopefully should
>> cover more ioctl-on-gone-device cases by returning -ENXIO if an attempt
>> was made to submit request to a non-running device.
>
> Can we please not duplicate complicated logic like that?
>
> IOW, just make a helper function for it.
>
> That said, isn't this all *exactly* what scsi_prep_state_check() is
> supposed to check for? Why isn't that called, or if called, why isn't
> it doing the right thing?

This is before you get that far, it's actually oopsing on inserting the
request on sdev->sdev_queue that is now NULL. The prep state checking
happens when sr/sd pulls the request off the queue for processing.

--
Jens Axboe

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