James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> writes:
> From: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
>
> After e513cc1 module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading,
> module_refcount() is returning (unsigned long)-1 when called from within
> a routine that runs in module_exit. This is confusing the scsi device
> put code which is coded to detect a module_refcount() of zero for
> running within a module exit routine and not try to do another
> module_put. The fix is to restore the original behaviour of
> module_refcount() and return zero if we're running inside an exit
> routine.
I think this code used to be wrong, if someone used rmmod --wait.
Fortunately nobody ever did that, so we removed the feature in 2013 and
your code was OK again :)
But I think the correct fix is the same: turn try_module_get() into
__module_get():
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
index e02885451425..9b3829931f40 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -986,9 +986,9 @@ int scsi_device_get(struct scsi_device *sdev)
return -ENXIO;
if (!get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev))
return -ENXIO;
- /* We can fail this if we're doing SCSI operations
+ /* We can fail try_module_get if we're doing SCSI operations
* from module exit (like cache flush) */
- try_module_get(sdev->host->hostt->module);
+ __module_get(sdev->host->hostt->module);
return 0;
}
@@ -1004,14 +1004,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_device_get);
*/
void scsi_device_put(struct scsi_device *sdev)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
- struct module *module = sdev->host->hostt->module;
-
- /* The module refcount will be zero if scsi_device_get()
- * was called from a module removal routine */
- if (module && module_refcount(module) != 0)
- module_put(module);
-#endif
+ module_put(sdev->host->hostt->module);
put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_device_put);
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