Panic in g_disk_done() with atacontrol detach

[Lukas Ertl]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20040201190653.M613 at korben.in.tern>, Lukas Ertl writes:
> >The problem obviously is that ad_detach() calls disk_destroy() which nulls
> >out the softc, and in g_disk_done() this softc is referenced again.
> >
> >The question is: is this an unsupported operation in the sense of "don't
> >do that"?  If yes, then "atacontrol detach" should probably refuse to do
> >the actual detach when there are I/O requests running, this would prevent
> >a lot of foot shooting.
>
> No, this should work.

Ok, but just commenting out the "gp->softc = NULL" statements apparently
aren't the way to go, cause then I end up in a panic somewhere in the
softupdate code...

Any hints how to properly do this?

regards,
le

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