Re: [PATCH] Fix bad error handling in sg.c

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

Ishai Rabinovitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm taking a part in the development of SRP (Scsi RDMA Protocol).
> While running tests on SRP, I think I found a bug in the scsi layer.
> 
> I got a NULL derefrence in cdev_del+1 when called from sg_remove. By looking at
> the code of sg_add, sg_alloc and sg_remove (all in drivers/scsi/sg.c) I found
> out that sg_add is calling sg_alloc but if it fails afterwards it does not
> deallocate the space that was allocated in sg_alloc and the redundant entry has
> NULL in cdev. When sg_remove is being called, it tries to perform cdev_del to
> this NULL cdev and fails.
> 
> I think that the following patch solves this problem.

Ishai,
Both the analysis and the patch look correct. Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Ishai Rabinovitz <ishai@mellanox.co.il>

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>

> 
> Index: ishai/linux-2.6.17/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/scsi/sg.c	2006-06-15 17:08:11.659864000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/scsi/sg.c	2006-06-16 00:32:26.676638000 +0300
> @@ -1402,6 +1402,7 @@ sg_add(struct class_device *cl_dev, stru
>  	Sg_device *sdp = NULL;
>  	struct cdev * cdev = NULL;
>  	int error, k;
> +	unsigned long iflags;
>  
>  	disk = alloc_disk(1);
>  	if (!disk) {
> @@ -1429,7 +1430,7 @@ sg_add(struct class_device *cl_dev, stru
>  
>  	error = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR, k), 1);
>  	if (error)
> -		goto out;
> +		goto cdev_add_err;
>  
>  	sdp->cdev = cdev;
>  	if (sg_sysfs_valid) {
> @@ -1456,6 +1457,13 @@ sg_add(struct class_device *cl_dev, stru
>  
>  	return 0;
>  
> +cdev_add_err:
> +	write_lock_irqsave(&sg_dev_arr_lock, iflags);
> +	kfree(sg_dev_arr[k]);
> +	sg_dev_arr[k] = NULL;
> +	sg_nr_dev--;
> +	write_unlock_irqrestore(&sg_dev_arr_lock, iflags);
> +
>  out:
>  	put_disk(disk);
>  	if (cdev)