linux-kernel - [PATCH update] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref in scsi_remove

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Message-ID: <tkrat.c814d52432988f28@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:05:49 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH update] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref in
 scsi_remove_device

Fix a kernel bug when unplugging an SBP-2 device after having its
scsi_device already removed via the "delete" sysfs attribute.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
---

Update:  A _put was missing in a failure path.

 drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
+++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
@@ -762,9 +762,10 @@ static void sbp2_release_target(struct k
 	sbp2_unblock(tgt);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(lu, next, &tgt->lu_list, link) {
-		if (lu->sdev)
+		if (lu->sdev) {
 			scsi_remove_device(lu->sdev);
-
+			scsi_device_put(lu->sdev);
+		}
 		sbp2_send_management_orb(lu, tgt->node_id, lu->generation,
 				SBP2_LOGOUT_REQUEST, lu->login_id, NULL);
 
@@ -886,12 +887,11 @@ static void sbp2_login(struct work_struc
 	if (IS_ERR(sdev))
 		goto out_logout_login;
 
-	scsi_device_put(sdev);
-
 	/* Unreported error during __scsi_add_device() */
 	smp_rmb(); /* get current card generation */
 	if (generation != device->card->generation) {
 		scsi_remove_device(sdev);
+		scsi_device_put(sdev);
 		goto out_logout_login;
 	}
 

-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- --=- =--==
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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