[PATCH v3] scsi: sg: Avoid race in error handling & drop bogus warn

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Fri Apr 5 03:34:23 AEDT 2024


On 4/1/24 12:10, Alexander Wetzel wrote:
> commit 27f58c04a8f4 ("scsi: sg: Avoid sg device teardown race")
> introduced an incorrect WARN_ON_ONCE() and missed a sequence where
> sg_device_destroy() was used after scsi_device_put().
> 
> sg_device_destroy() is accessing the parent scsi_device request_queue which
> will already be set to NULL when the preceding call to scsi_device_put()
> removed the last reference to the parent scsi_device.
> 
> Drop the incorrect WARN_ON_ONCE() - allowing more than one concurrent
> access to the sg device - and make sure sg_device_destroy() is not used
> after scsi_device_put() in the error handling.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>


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