block: remove parent device reference from struct bsg_class_device

Bsg holding a reference to the parent device may result in a crash if a
bsg file handle is closed after the parent device driver has unloaded.

Holding a reference is not really needed: the parent device must exist
between bsg_register_queue and bsg_unregister_queue.  Before the device
goes away the caller does blk_cleanup_queue so that all in-flight
requests to the device are gone and all new requests cannot pass beyond
the queue.  The queue itself is a refcounted object and it will stay
alive with a bsg file.

Based on analysis, previous patch and changelog from Anatoliy Glagolev.

Reported-by: Anatoliy Glagolev <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Hellwig 2018-05-29 08:40:23 +02:00 • committed by Jens Axboe
commit 5de815a7ee
7 changed files with 19 additions and 63 deletions

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@ -303,11 +303,9 @@ static void bsg_exit_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req)
* @name: device to give bsg device
* @job_fn: bsg job handler
* @dd_job_size: size of LLD data needed for each job
* @release: @dev release function
*/
struct request_queue *bsg_setup_queue(struct device *dev, const char *name,
bsg_job_fn *job_fn, int dd_job_size,
void (*release)(struct device *))
bsg_job_fn *job_fn, int dd_job_size)
{
struct request_queue *q;
int ret;
@ -331,7 +329,7 @@ struct request_queue *bsg_setup_queue(struct device *dev, const char *name,
blk_queue_softirq_done(q, bsg_softirq_done);
blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT);
ret = bsg_register_queue(q, dev, name, &bsg_transport_ops, release);
ret = bsg_register_queue(q, dev, name, &bsg_transport_ops);
if (ret) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: bsg interface failed to "
"initialize - register queue\n", dev->kobj.name);