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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2011-04-08 15:05:36 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2011-04-24 11:02:09 -0500
commit0b8393578c70bc1f09790eeae7d918f38da2e010 (patch)
tree0d1ba0f9e3470800e69753e5f228b733af7205ed /drivers/scsi/device_handler
parenta1f74ae82d133ebb2aabb19d181944b4e83e9960 (diff)
downloadlinux-0b8393578c70bc1f09790eeae7d918f38da2e010.tar.gz
[SCSI] scsi_dh: fix reference counting in scsi_dh_activate error path
Commit db422318cbca55168cf965f655471dbf8be82433 ([SCSI] scsi_dh:
propagate SCSI device deletion) introduced a regression where the device
reference is not dropped prior to scsi_dh_activate's early return from
the error path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.38
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/device_handler')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
index 564e6ecd17c2..0119b8147797 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
@@ -394,12 +394,14 @@ int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *q, activate_complete fn, void *data)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct scsi_device *sdev;
 	struct scsi_device_handler *scsi_dh = NULL;
+	struct device *dev = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
 	sdev = q->queuedata;
 	if (sdev && sdev->scsi_dh_data)
 		scsi_dh = sdev->scsi_dh_data->scsi_dh;
-	if (!scsi_dh || !get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev) ||
+	dev = get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+	if (!scsi_dh || !dev ||
 	    sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_CANCEL ||
 	    sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL)
 		err = SCSI_DH_NOSYS;
@@ -410,12 +412,13 @@ int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *q, activate_complete fn, void *data)
 	if (err) {
 		if (fn)
 			fn(data, err);
-		return err;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (scsi_dh->activate)
 		err = scsi_dh->activate(sdev, fn, data);
-	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+out:
+	put_device(dev);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_dh_activate);