2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mike Christie The patch is upstream as commit 3ed7897242b7efe977f3a8d06d4e5a4ebe28b10e A different backport is necessary because of the class_device to device conversion post 2.6.25. commit 9c7701088a61cc0cf8a6e1c68d1e74e3cc2ee0b7 Author: Dave Young Date: Tue Jan 22 14:01:34 2008 +0800 scsi: use class iteration api Isn't a correct replacement for the original hand rolled host lookup. The problem is that class_find_child would get a reference to the host's class device which is never released. Since the host class device holds a reference to the host gendev, the host can never be freed. In 2.6.25 we started using class_find_device, and this function also gets a reference to the device, so we end up with an extra ref and the host will not get released. This patch adds a class_put_device to balance the class_find_device() get. I kept the scsi_host_get in scsi_host_lookup, because the target layer is using scsi_host_lookup and it looks like it needs the SHOST_DEL check. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c @@ -455,9 +455,10 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_lookup(unsig struct Scsi_Host *shost = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO); cdev = class_find_child(&shost_class, &hostnum, __scsi_host_match); - if (cdev) + if (cdev) { shost = scsi_host_get(class_to_shost(cdev)); - + class_device_put(cdev); + } return shost; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_host_lookup); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/