Re: [PATCH] Fix reference counting for failed SCSI devices

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:38 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>whenever the scsi-ml tries to scan non-existent devices the reference
>>count in scsi_alloc_sdev() and scsi_probe_and_add_lun() is not adjusted
>>properly. Every call to XXX_initialize in the driver core sets the
>>reference count to 1, so for a proper deallocation an explicit XXX_put()
>>has to be done.
> 
> That's true, but I don't see what the problem is if the device has never
> been made visible.
> 
It's not visible but it's still allocated and referenced. So on doing a
rmmod these class_devices are being deallocated which crashes as the
class device is not connected properly.

>>+			put_device(&starget->dev);
> 
> this would amount to a double put, since the parent put method is called
> in the device release.
> 
Oops. Correct.

>>+	class_device_put(&sdev->sdev_classdev);
> 
> This is unnecessary since the class device is simply occupying a private
> area in the scsi_device.  As long as its never made visible to the
> system, its refcount is irrelevant
> 
It's not. Whenever you try to rmmod the adapter it becomes highly
relevant. If it doesn't crash you've at least generated a memleak as the
class device is never freed.
(And these are quite a few for Wide-SCSI Double-channel adapters ...)

>> 	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
>> out:
>> 	if (display_failure_msg)
>>@@ -855,6 +857,8 @@ static int scsi_probe_and_add_lun(struct
>> 		if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
>> 			sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
>> 		transport_destroy_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
>>+		class_device_put(&sdev->sdev_classdev);
>>+		put_device(sdev->sdev_gendev.parent);
> 
> same should apply here.  As long as this cascade occurs before
> scsi_add_lun() (which calls scsi_sysfs_add_sdev()), which is what makes
> the whole set of devices and classes visible.
> 
Correct for the parent device. The class device has to be deallocated
properly if a rmmod should work properly.

New patch attached. Please apply.

Cheers,

Hannes
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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Fix refcount for failed devices

When a non-present device is scanned it is not properly deregistered
from the driver core. Calling XXX_initialize() functions from the driver
core sets the reference count to 1, so for proper deallocation a
XXX_put() has to be issued.

--- linux-2.6.12-rc4/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c.orig	2005-05-24 10:26:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc4/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c	2005-05-24 10:55:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ static struct scsi_device *scsi_alloc_sd
 out_device_destroy:
 	transport_destroy_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 	scsi_free_queue(sdev->request_queue);
+	class_device_put(&sdev->sdev_classdev);
 	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 out:
 	if (display_failure_msg)
@@ -855,6 +856,7 @@ static int scsi_probe_and_add_lun(struct
 		if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
 			sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
 		transport_destroy_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+		class_device_put(&sdev->sdev_classdev);
 		put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 	}
  out: