tree 2774230419725a5e8ed66c28c00c5ef974112590
parent a82544c7baccf2d8a12cee46110cc7d356d3edf0
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 1445265346 +0200
committer James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com> 1446744254 -0800

scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target

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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>