[PATCH update] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref inscsi_remove_device

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 03:06:19 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

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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