On 09/16/2015 04:30 PM, Matthew R. Ochs wrote:
> Currently, scsi_host_put() is being called prematurely in the
> remove path and is missing entirely in an error cleanup path.
> The former can lead to memory being freed too early with
> subsequent access potentially corrupting data whilst the former
> would result in a memory leak.
> 
> Move the usage on remove to be the last cleanup action taken
> and introduce a call to scsi_host_put() in the one initialization
> error path that does not use remove to cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mro...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
> index fc77cd4..1856a73 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
> @@ -734,7 +734,6 @@ static void cxlflash_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>       case INIT_STATE_SCSI:
>               cxlflash_term_local_luns(cfg);
>               scsi_remove_host(cfg->host);
> -             scsi_host_put(cfg->host);
>               /* Fall through */
>       case INIT_STATE_AFU:
>               term_afu(cfg);
> @@ -744,6 +743,7 @@ static void cxlflash_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>       case INIT_STATE_NONE:
>               flush_work(&cfg->work_q);
>               free_mem(cfg);
> +             scsi_host_put(cfg->host);
>               break;
>       }
> 
> @@ -2415,6 +2415,7 @@ static int cxlflash_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: call to scsi_host_alloc failed!\n",

This message text is wrong. Its the call to alloc_mem that has failed in this
leg, not the call to scsi_host_alloc.

>                       __func__);
>               rc = -ENOMEM;
> +             scsi_host_put(cfg->host);
>               goto out;
>       }
> 


-- 
Brian King
Power Linux I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center

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