Avoid that the sdev reference count can drop to zero before
a queue is run by scsi_run_queue().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Chanho Min <chanho....@lge.com>
Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/2/96
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <micha...@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c   |   16 +++++++++++-----
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index f1bf5af..5c67339 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -452,11 +452,17 @@ static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
                        continue;
                }
 
-               spin_unlock(shost->host_lock);
-               spin_lock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
-               __blk_run_queue(sdev->request_queue);
-               spin_unlock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
-               spin_lock(shost->host_lock);
+               /*
+                * Obtain a reference before unlocking the host_lock such that
+                * the sdev can't disappear before blk_run_queue() is invoked.
+                */
+               get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
+
+               blk_run_queue(sdev->request_queue);
+               put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
+
+               spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
        }
        /* put any unprocessed entries back */
        list_splice(&starved_list, &shost->starved_list);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index ce5224c..2ff7ba5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -348,7 +348,6 @@ static void scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext(struct 
work_struct *work)
        starget->reap_ref++;
        list_del(&sdev->siblings);
        list_del(&sdev->same_target_siblings);
-       list_del(&sdev->starved_entry);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(sdev->host->host_lock, flags);
 
        cancel_work_sync(&sdev->event_work);
@@ -956,6 +955,8 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 {
        struct device *dev = &sdev->sdev_gendev;
+       struct Scsi_Host *shost = sdev->host;
+       unsigned long flags;
 
        if (sdev->is_visible) {
                if (scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_CANCEL) != 0)
@@ -977,6 +978,17 @@ void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_device *sdev)
        blk_cleanup_queue(sdev->request_queue);
        cancel_work_sync(&sdev->requeue_work);
 
+       /*
+        * Remove a SCSI device from the starved list after blk_cleanup_queue()
+        * finished such that scsi_request_fn() can't add it back to that list.
+        * Also remove an sdev from the starved list before invoking
+        * put_device() such that get_device() is guaranteed to succeed for an
+        * sdev present on the starved list.
+        */
+       spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
+       list_del(&sdev->starved_entry);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
+
        if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
                sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
        transport_destroy_device(dev);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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