linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sas: scsi_queue_work can fail, so make callers aware

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Message-ID: <yq1fuekzyr1.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:28:50 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        wangyijing@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sas: scsi_queue_work can fail, so make callers aware


Johannes,

> libsas uses scsi_queue_work() to queue it's internal event
> notifications. scsi_queue_work() can return -EINVAL if the work queue
> doesn't exist and it does call queue_work() which can return false if
> the work is already queued.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering