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authorBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>2012-06-29 15:34:26 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-08-02 14:37:55 +0100
commit09411e4280933eb335e1f723dc215a5583c3be8f (patch)
treeb25cd89a6afb842080448cb93e3b1a42cad1c40c /drivers/scsi
parent9c63d964e3f093b858a6f06875a68bc4206f71ba (diff)
Avoid dangling pointer in scsi_requeue_command()
commit 940f5d47e2f2e1fa00443921a0abf4822335b54d upstream. When we call scsi_unprep_request() the command associated with the request gets destroyed and therefore drops its reference on the device. If this was the only reference, the device may get released and we end up with a NULL pointer deref when we call blk_requeue_request. Reported-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [jejb: enhance commend and add commit log for stable] Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 4f68ba64bf2d..6c4b620ac3c1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -479,15 +479,26 @@ void scsi_requeue_run_queue(struct work_struct *work)
*/
static void scsi_requeue_command(struct request_queue *q, struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
{
+ struct scsi_device *sdev = cmd->device;
struct request *req = cmd->request;
unsigned long flags;
+ /*
+ * We need to hold a reference on the device to avoid the queue being
+ * killed after the unlock and before scsi_run_queue is invoked which
+ * may happen because scsi_unprep_request() puts the command which
+ * releases its reference on the device.
+ */
+ get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+
spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
scsi_unprep_request(req);
blk_requeue_request(q, req);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
scsi_run_queue(q);
+
+ put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
}
void scsi_next_command(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)