INIT_LIST_HEAD(&shost->eh_cmd_q);

        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&shost->starved_list);

        init_waitqueue_head(&shost->host_wait);

        mutex_init(&shost->scan_mutex);

        shost->host_no = scsi_host_next_hn++; /* XXX(hch): still racy */

        shost->dma_channel = 0xff;

        /* These three are default values which can be overridden */

        shost->max_channel = 0;

        shost->max_id = 8;

        shost->max_lun = 8;

        /* Give each shost a default transportt */

 D       shost->transportt = &blank_transport_template;

Why we see panic at iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out()

The mpp virtual HBA doesn’t have a specific scsi_transport. Therefore,
the
blank_transport_template will be assigned to the virtual host of the MPP
virtual HBA by SCSI middle level. Please note that the statement C has
assigned
iscsi-transport eh_timedout handler to the blank_transport_template.
When a mpp
virtual command gets timedout, the iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out() will be
invoked to
handle mpp virtual command timeout from the middle level
scsi_times_out()
function of the scsi_error.c.

enum blk_eh_timer_return scsi_times_out(struct request *req)

{

        struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = req->special;

        enum blk_eh_timer_return (*eh_timed_out)(struct scsi_cmnd *);

        enum blk_eh_timer_return rtn = BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED;

        scsi_log_completion(scmd, TIMEOUT_ERROR);

        if (scmd->device->host->transportt->eh_timed_out)

 E               eh_timed_out =
scmd->device->host->transportt->eh_timed_out;

        else if (scmd->device->host->hostt->eh_timed_out)

                eh_timed_out = scmd->device->host->hostt->eh_timed_out;

        else

                eh_timed_out = NULL;

        if (eh_timed_out) {

                rtn = eh_timed_out(scmd);

It is very easy to understand why we get panic in the
iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out().
A scsi_cmnd from a no-iscsi device definitely can not resolve out a
session and
session->lock. The panic can be happed anywhere during the differencing.

static enum blk_eh_timer_return iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out(struct scsi_cmnd
*scmd)

{

        struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session;

        struct iscsi_session *session;

        struct iscsi_conn *conn;

        enum blk_eh_timer_return rc = BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED;

        cls_session = starget_to_session(scsi_target(scmd->device));

        session = cls_session->dd_data;

        debug_scsi("scsi cmd %p timedout\n", scmd);

        spin_lock(&session->lock);

This patch fixes the problem by moving the setting of the
iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out to iscsi_add_host, which is after the LLDs
have set their transport template to shost->transportt.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>