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authorBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>2012-06-29 15:34:26 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-09 08:22:37 -0700
commitcc13f1fb2f029fb2d4689252470029309a7ff682 (patch)
tree31b78a3daaf4e80b35ff66e9d82306ac489bdcbc /drivers/scsi
parent4d9157ec5aecf5eab7c94b09c24131fc53424118 (diff)
SCSI: 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 7ebe1676e80..495db801621 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)