From: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>

The I/O submission and completion pathes call into the device handler
without any synchronization agains detachment.  So disallow detaching
device handlers at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
index 265e3dd..7723280 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
@@ -180,8 +180,10 @@ store_dh_state(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute 
*attr,
                        /*
                         * Detach from a device handler
                         */
-                       scsi_dh_handler_detach(sdev);
-                       err = 0;
+                       sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdev,
+                                   "can't detach handler %s.\n",
+                                   sdev->handler->name);
+                       err = -EINVAL;
                } else if (!strncmp(buf, "activate", 8)) {
                        /*
                         * Activate a device handler
-- 
1.8.5.2

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