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* [PATCH] ide: fix locking in drive_release_dev()
@ 2009-02-23 22:38 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz @ 2009-02-23 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ide; +Cc: linux-kernel, Stanislaw Gruszka

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix locking in drive_release_dev()

* Request queue cleanup should happen before freeing drive->id
  and marking device as non-present.  Fix it.

* Remove superfluous hwif->lock acquiring/releasing.

Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---
I noticed this while investigating the host driver removal
issue -- lets also fix/test this one while we are at it...

 drivers/ide/ide-probe.c |   12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -937,20 +937,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_init_disk);
 static void drive_release_dev (struct device *dev)
 {
 	ide_drive_t *drive = container_of(dev, ide_drive_t, gendev);
-	ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
 
 	ide_proc_unregister_device(drive);
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&hwif->lock);
+	blk_cleanup_queue(drive->queue);
+	drive->queue = NULL;
+
 	kfree(drive->id);
 	drive->id = NULL;
+
 	drive->dev_flags &= ~IDE_DFLAG_PRESENT;
-	/* Messed up locking ... */
-	spin_unlock_irq(&hwif->lock);
-	blk_cleanup_queue(drive->queue);
-	spin_lock_irq(&hwif->lock);
-	drive->queue = NULL;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&hwif->lock);
 
 	complete(&drive->gendev_rel_comp);
 }

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