On 02/21/2017 07:00 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Note: the chardev instance in osd_uld.c originally did not
> set the kobject parent. Thus, I'm reasonably confident that because
> of this, this code  would have suffered from a minor use after free
> bug if the cdev was open when the backing device was released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <[email protected]>

Cool thanks. And even a bug fix
ACK-by: Boaz Harrosh <[email protected]>

> ---
>  drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
> index 243eab3..519be56 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
> @@ -473,18 +473,19 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
>               goto err_put_disk;
>       }
>  
> +     device_initialize(&oud->class_dev);
> +     oud->class_dev.devt = MKDEV(SCSI_OSD_MAJOR, oud->minor);
> +
>       /* init the char-device for communication with user-mode */
>       cdev_init(&oud->cdev, &osd_fops);
>       oud->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> -     error = cdev_add(&oud->cdev,
> -                      MKDEV(SCSI_OSD_MAJOR, oud->minor), 1);
> +     error = device_add_cdev(&oud->class_dev, &oud->cdev);
>       if (error) {
>               OSD_ERR("cdev_add failed\n");
>               goto err_put_disk;
>       }
>  
>       /* class device member */
> -     oud->class_dev.devt = oud->cdev.dev;
>       oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
>       oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
>       oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
> @@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
>               goto err_put_cdev;
>       }
>  
> -     error = device_register(&oud->class_dev);
> +     error = device_add(&oud->class_dev);
>       if (error) {
>               OSD_ERR("device_register failed => %d\n", error);
>               goto err_put_cdev;
> 


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