From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] scsi: core: fix failure handling of scsi_add_host_with_dma
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 19:32:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95812a80-8b99-da12-7935-dc23ca81b7ea@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602133029.2864069-3-ming.lei@redhat.com>
On 6/2/21 6:30 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> When scsi_add_host_with_dma() return failure, the caller will call
> scsi_host_put(shost) to release everything allocated for this host
> instance. So we can't free allocated stuff in scsi_add_host_with_dma(),
> otherwise double free will be caused.
>
> Strictly speaking, these host resources allocation should have been
> moved to scsi_host_alloc(), but the allocation may need driver's
> info which can be built between calling scsi_host_alloc() and
> scsi_add_host(), so just keep the allocations in
> scsi_add_host_with_dma().
>
> Fixes the problem by relying on host device's release handler to
> release everything.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 13:30 [PATCH 0/4] scsi: fix failure handling of alloc/add host Ming Lei
2021-06-02 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] scsi: core: fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc Ming Lei
2021-06-03 2:26 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-06-03 15:40 ` John Garry
2021-06-07 11:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-29 19:23 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2021-06-30 0:11 ` Ming Lei
2021-06-02 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] scsi: core: fix failure handling of scsi_add_host_with_dma Ming Lei
2021-06-03 2:32 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2021-06-03 15:40 ` John Garry
2021-06-07 11:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-02 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] scsi: core: put .shost_dev in failure path if host state becomes running Ming Lei
2021-06-03 3:06 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-06-03 3:22 ` Ming Lei
2021-06-03 15:41 ` John Garry
2021-06-07 11:40 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-02 13:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] scsi: core: only put parent device if host state isn't in SHOST_CREATED Ming Lei
2021-06-03 3:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-06-03 15:38 ` John Garry
2021-06-07 11:41 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-06-07 11:56 ` Ming Lei
2021-06-03 15:43 ` [PATCH 0/4] scsi: fix failure handling of alloc/add host John Garry
2021-06-08 3:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
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