linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] xen/scsiback: correct frontend counting

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Message-Id: <1454678503-7999-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
Date:	Fri,  5 Feb 2016 14:21:42 +0100
From:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, david.vrabel@...rix.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Cc:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] xen/scsiback: correct frontend counting

When adding a new frontend to xen-scsiback don't decrement the number
of active frontends in case of no error. Not doing so results in a
failure when trying to remove the xen-pvscsi nexus even if no domain
is using it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
index ad4eb10..51387d7 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c
@@ -939,12 +939,12 @@ out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&info->v2p_lock, flags);
 
 out_free:
-	mutex_lock(&tpg->tv_tpg_mutex);
-	tpg->tv_tpg_fe_count--;
-	mutex_unlock(&tpg->tv_tpg_mutex);
-
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		mutex_lock(&tpg->tv_tpg_mutex);
+		tpg->tv_tpg_fe_count--;
+		mutex_unlock(&tpg->tv_tpg_mutex);
 		kfree(new);
+	}
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.6.2