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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>2007-08-20 09:18:48 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.localdomain>2007-10-12 14:51:06 -0400
commita57b1fccdfa65b78481f5e651833d979e545de04 (patch)
treed70028d8df64fd12d8a583da18a31f9de6a853ae /drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
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[SCSI] scsi_scan: Cope with kthread_run failing
If kthread_run failed, we would fail to scan the host, and leak the allocated async_scan_data. Since using a separate thread is just an optimisation, do the scan synchronously if we fail to spawn a thread. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
index 20df7fe4f48f..b53c5f67e372 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -1799,6 +1799,7 @@ static int do_scan_async(void *_data)
**/
void scsi_scan_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
{
+ struct task_struct *p;
struct async_scan_data *data;
if (strncmp(scsi_scan_type, "none", 4) == 0)
@@ -1810,7 +1811,9 @@ void scsi_scan_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
return;
}
- kthread_run(do_scan_async, data, "scsi_scan_%d", shost->host_no);
+ p = kthread_run(do_scan_async, data, "scsi_scan_%d", shost->host_no);
+ if (unlikely(IS_ERR(p)))
+ do_scan_async(data);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_scan_host);