Now that all scsi_request_fn() callers hold a reference on the SCSI device that function is invoked for and since blk_cleanup_queue() waits until scsi_request_fn() has finished it is safe to remove the get_device() / put_device() pair from scsi_request_fn().
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <micha...@cs.wisc.edu> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 14 +++----------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index d6ca072..03d4165 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1533,16 +1533,14 @@ static void scsi_softirq_done(struct request *rq) * Lock status: IO request lock assumed to be held when called. */ static void scsi_request_fn(struct request_queue *q) + __releases(q->queue_lock) + __acquires(q->queue_lock) { struct scsi_device *sdev = q->queuedata; struct Scsi_Host *shost; struct scsi_cmnd *cmd; struct request *req; - if(!get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev)) - /* We must be tearing the block queue down already */ - return; - /* * To start with, we keep looping until the queue is empty, or until * the host is no longer able to accept any more requests. @@ -1631,7 +1629,7 @@ static void scsi_request_fn(struct request_queue *q) goto out_delay; } - goto out; + return; not_ready: spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); @@ -1650,12 +1648,6 @@ static void scsi_request_fn(struct request_queue *q) out_delay: if (sdev->device_busy == 0) blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY); -out: - /* must be careful here...if we trigger the ->remove() function - * we cannot be holding the q lock */ - spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); - put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); - spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); } u64 scsi_calculate_bounce_limit(struct Scsi_Host *shost) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html