On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:40:52AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
A long time ago the unfortunate decision was taken to add a self- deletion attribute to the sysfs SCSI device directory. That decision was unfortunate because self-deletion is really tricky. We can't drop that attribute because widely used user space software depends on it, namely the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script. Hence this patch that avoids that writing into that attribute triggers a deadlock. See also commit 7973cbd9fbd9 ("[PATCH] add sysfs attributes to scan and delete scsi_devices").
Acked-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org
Thanks.