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sym53c8xx: fix shost use-after-free and memory leak

PATCH New Tony Battersby 1 participant 1 message Dec 16, 2008

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PATCH 1/1 sym53c8xx: fix shost use-after-free and memory leak

This patch fixes two bugs:

1) rmmod sym53c8xx uses shost after freeing it with scsi_put_host(shost).

2) insmod sym53c8xx doesn't call scsi_put_host(shost) if scsi_add_host() fails, causing a memory leak on the error path.

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drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c renamed from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c.orig +1 -1
@@ -1660,6 +1660,7 @@ static int sym_detach(struct Scsi_Host *
 	OUTB(np, nc_istat, 0);
 
 	sym_free_resources(np, pdev);
+	scsi_host_put(shost);
 
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -1749,7 +1750,6 @@ static void sym2_remove(struct pci_dev *
 	struct Scsi_Host *shost = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	scsi_remove_host(shost);
-	scsi_host_put(shost);
 	sym_detach(shost, pdev);
 	pci_release_regions(pdev);
 	pci_disable_device(pdev);