ch: fix ch_remove oops
PATCH 1/1 ch: fix ch_remove oops
The latest git and 2.6.26 needs this fix.
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From: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH] ch: fix ch_remove oops
The following commit causes ch_remove oops:
commit 24b42566c3fcbb5a9011d1446783d0f5844ccd45
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Date: Fri May 16 17:55:12 2008 -0700
SCSI: fix race in device_create
There is a race from when a device is created with device_create() and then the drvdata is set with a call to dev_set_drvdata() in which a sysfs file could be open, yet the drvdata will be NULL, causing all sorts of bad things to happen.
This patch fixes the problem by using the new function, device_create_drvdata(). It fixes the problem in all of the scsi drivers that need it.
The problem is ch_probe stores ch's private data at a wrong place.
We need to store it at scsi_device->sdev_gendev but the above patch stores it at device struct that device_create_drvdata returns. So we hit an oops when ch_remove accesses scsi_device->sdev_gendev->driver_data, which is NULL.
Actually, there wasn't a race because ch doesn't create sysfs files with device struct that device_create returns. This patch puts back dev_set_drvdata() to set ch's private data properly.
--- drivers/scsi/ch.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
drivers/scsi/ch.c +1 -0
@@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ static int ch_probe(struct device *dev)if (init)ch_init_elem (ch); +dev_set_drvdata (dev, ch);sdev_printk (KERN_INFO , sd,"Attached scsi changer %s\n" , ch->name);return 0 ;
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