The fcoe controller has back references, therefore defer releasing master lport which gets freed along scsi_host_put and then free it once fcoe interface is fully cleaned.
Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu....@intel.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.bratt...@intel.com> --- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c index 7a58ece..7f0afe8 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ static void fcoe_interface_cleanup(struct fcoe_interface *fcoe) /* Release the self-reference taken during fcoe_interface_create() */ /* tear-down the FCoE controller */ fcoe_ctlr_destroy(fip); + scsi_host_put(fcoe->ctlr.lp->host); kfree(fcoe); dev_put(netdev); module_put(THIS_MODULE); @@ -976,8 +977,12 @@ static void fcoe_if_destroy(struct fc_lport *lport) /* Free memory used by statistical counters */ fc_lport_free_stats(lport); - /* Release the Scsi_Host */ - scsi_host_put(lport->host); + /* + * Release the Scsi_Host for vport but hold on to + * master lport until it fcoe interface fully cleaned-up. + */ + if (lport->vport) + scsi_host_put(lport->host); } /** _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@open-fcoe.org https://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel