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>
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