This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[SCSI] fix refcounting bug in scsi_get_host_dev
to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fix-refcounting-bug-in-scsi_get_host_dev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d5469119f0098881ab7f991990ef4f81ef13a194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:13:39 -0500
Subject: [SCSI] fix refcounting bug in scsi_get_host_dev
From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
commit d5469119f0098881ab7f991990ef4f81ef13a194 upstream.
This patch (as1334) fixes a bug in scsi_get_host_dev(). It
incorrectly calls get_device() on the new device's target.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -1909,10 +1909,9 @@ struct scsi_device *scsi_get_host_dev(st
goto out;
sdev = scsi_alloc_sdev(starget, 0, NULL);
- if (sdev) {
- sdev->sdev_gendev.parent = get_device(&starget->dev);
+ if (sdev)
sdev->borken = 0;
- } else
+ else
scsi_target_reap(starget);
put_device(&starget->dev);
out:
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from
[email protected] are
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