Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:05:49 +0100 (CET) From: Stefan Richter Subject: firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref. in scsi_remove_device Fix a kernel bug when unplugging an SBP-2 device after having its scsi_device already removed via the "delete" sysfs attribute. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter --- drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c +++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c @@ -762,9 +762,10 @@ static void sbp2_release_target(struct k sbp2_unblock(tgt); list_for_each_entry_safe(lu, next, &tgt->lu_list, link) { - if (lu->sdev) + if (lu->sdev) { scsi_remove_device(lu->sdev); - + scsi_device_put(lu->sdev); + } sbp2_send_management_orb(lu, tgt->node_id, lu->generation, SBP2_LOGOUT_REQUEST, lu->login_id, NULL); @@ -886,12 +887,11 @@ static void sbp2_login(struct work_struc if (IS_ERR(sdev)) goto out_logout_login; - scsi_device_put(sdev); - /* Unreported error during __scsi_add_device() */ smp_rmb(); /* get current card generation */ if (generation != device->card->generation) { scsi_remove_device(sdev); + scsi_device_put(sdev); goto out_logout_login; }