Calling ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev) on a device/controller which got
already removed, locks the system hard. Reproducibly on an X60 attached to
a dock station containing a cdrom device with doing

  $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/undock && echo 123 > /dev/sr0

This calls ata_eh_reset(...) which in turn tries to force PIO mode 0. But
the device is already gone.

Bisecting revealed the following commit as culprit:

  commit cdeab1140799f09c5f728a5ff85e0bdfa5679cd2
  Author: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Date:   Mon Oct 29 16:41:09 2007 +0900
  
      libata: relocate forcing PIO0 on reset
      
      Forcing PIO0 on reset was done inside ata_bus_softreset(), which is a
      bit out of place as it should be applied to all resets - hard, soft
      and implementation which don't use ata_bus_softreset().  Relocate it
      such that...
      
      * For new EH, it's done in ata_eh_reset() before calling prereset.
      
      * For old EH, it's done before calling ap->ops->phy_reset() in
        ata_bus_probe().
      
      This makes PIO0 forced after all resets.  Another difference is that
      reset itself is done after PIO0 is forced.
      
      Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


ATTENTION! The following patch solves the problem on my system, but please
be aware that I don't really know what I'm doing because I don't have the
big picture. There's surely a better way to check if the device/controller
is still functional than calling ata_link_{online,offline}.


Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index 4e31071..d6a7c57 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -2131,23 +2131,25 @@ int ata_eh_reset(struct ata_link *link, int classify,
 
        ata_eh_about_to_do(link, NULL, ehc->i.action & ATA_EH_RESET_MASK);
 
-       ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) {
-               /* If we issue an SRST then an ATA drive (not ATAPI)
-                * may change configuration and be in PIO0 timing. If
-                * we do a hard reset (or are coming from power on)
-                * this is true for ATA or ATAPI. Until we've set a
-                * suitable controller mode we should not touch the
-                * bus as we may be talking too fast.
-                */
-               dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
+       if (ata_link_online(link) != ata_link_offline(link)) {
+               ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) {
+                       /* If we issue an SRST then an ATA drive (not ATAPI)
+                        * may change configuration and be in PIO0 timing. If
+                        * we do a hard reset (or are coming from power on)
+                        * this is true for ATA or ATAPI. Until we've set a
+                        * suitable controller mode we should not touch the
+                        * bus as we may be talking too fast.
+                        */
+                       dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
 
-               /* If the controller has a pio mode setup function
-                * then use it to set the chipset to rights. Don't
-                * touch the DMA setup as that will be dealt with when
-                * configuring devices.
-                */
-               if (ap->ops->set_piomode)
-                       ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev);
+                       /* If the controller has a pio mode setup function
+                        * then use it to set the chipset to rights. Don't
+                        * touch the DMA setup as that will be dealt with when
+                        * configuring devices.
+                        */
+                       if (ap->ops->set_piomode)
+                               ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev);
+               }
        }
 
        /* Determine which reset to use and record in ehc->i.action.

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