linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] limit recursion when flushing shost->starved

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Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:04:29 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Cc:	Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@...ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <jejb@...elEye.com>,
	Linux SCSI <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] limit recursion when flushing shost->starved_list

On Sat, Aug 19 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:31 +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > Attached is a patch that should limit a possible recursion that can
> > lead to a stack overflow like follows:
> 
> Well, OK, initially I'll put this in scsi-misc, since I acknowledge its
> a problem.   However, it is one that block queue grouping should be able
> to get us out of ... and at that time, this code (and most of the
> starved list handling) should exit the scsi mid-layer.

Yep, the patch is a little nasty but I don't see a better way currently.
So the above outline sounds good to me.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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