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Revert "scsi: make 'state' device attribute pollable"
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This reverts commit 8a97712.

This commit added a call to sysfs_notify() from within
scsi_device_set_state(), which in turn turns out to make libata very
unhappy, because ata_eh_detach_dev() does

        spin_lock_irqsave(ap->lock, flags);
        ..
        if (ata_scsi_offline_dev(dev)) {
                dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_DETACHED;
                ap->pflags |= ATA_PFLAG_SCSI_HOTPLUG;
        }

and ata_scsi_offline_dev() then does that scsi_device_set_state() to set
it offline.

So now we called sysfs_notify() from within a spinlocked region, which
really doesn't work.  The 0day robot reported this as:

   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:238

because sysfs_notify() ends up calling kernfs_find_and_get_ns() which
then does mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex)..

The pollability of the device state isn't critical, so revert this all
for now, and maybe we'll do it differently in the future.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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torvalds committed Nov 7, 2017
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3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
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Expand Up @@ -2685,7 +2685,6 @@ scsi_device_set_state(struct scsi_device *sdev, enum scsi_device_state state)

}
sdev->sdev_state = state;
sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state");
return 0;

illegal:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3109,15 +3108,13 @@ int scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(struct scsi_device *sdev,
case SDEV_BLOCK:
case SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE:
sdev->sdev_state = new_state;
sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state");
break;
case SDEV_CREATED_BLOCK:
if (new_state == SDEV_TRANSPORT_OFFLINE ||
new_state == SDEV_OFFLINE)
sdev->sdev_state = new_state;
else
sdev->sdev_state = SDEV_CREATED;
sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj, NULL, "state");
break;
case SDEV_CANCEL:
case SDEV_OFFLINE:
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5 changes: 1 addition & 4 deletions drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c
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Expand Up @@ -556,11 +556,8 @@ int srp_reconnect_rport(struct srp_rport *rport)
*/
shost_for_each_device(sdev, shost) {
mutex_lock(&sdev->state_mutex);
if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_OFFLINE) {
if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_OFFLINE)
sdev->sdev_state = SDEV_RUNNING;
sysfs_notify(&sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj,
NULL, "state");
}
mutex_unlock(&sdev->state_mutex);
}
} else if (rport->state == SRP_RPORT_RUNNING) {
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