scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:35:46 +0000 (16:35 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:57:47 +0000 (11:57 -0800)
commit2544cce12c7bd18e880b09c21b1a2d944a3423eb
tree8b39be5721360d777de955dedf27d52158d98248
parent00707985578715324f32a0d71dbf6221bc4a2fc7
scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target

commit 40998193560dab6c3ce8d25f4fa58a23e252ef38 upstream.

When dropping a lock while iterating a list we must restart the search
as other threads could have manipulated the list under us.  Without this
we can get stuck in an endless loop.  This bug was introduced by

commit bc3f02a795d3b4faa99d37390174be2a75d091bd
Author: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 28 22:12:10 2012 -0700

    [SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove

Which was itself trying to fix a reported soft lockup issue

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1348679

However, we believe even with this revert of the original patch, the soft
lockup problem has been fixed by

commit f2495e228fce9f9cec84367547813cbb0d6db15a
Author: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 07:01:41 2014 -0800

    [SCSI] dual scan thread bug fix

Thanks go to Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> for tracking all this
prior history down.

Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Fixes: bc3f02a795d3b4faa99d37390174be2a75d091bd
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c