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Christoph Hellwig authored
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 bc3f02a7 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 f2495e22 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: bc3f02a7 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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