Re: references on sdev_class & shost_class

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

Yes, It probably can be taken as you stated. I was just following the
model of get a ref on a object before we use it. Like you also indicated
the only reason it should fail is if scsi_mod was unloaded. If there was
a problem we would probably oops on a dereference instead of failing one
of the NULL returning checks in the call chain of class_get.


Christoph Hellwig [hch@lst.de] wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> what's the rationale behind all this class_get's on the scsi
> host and device classes?  I stumbled over that code when merging
> up the final bits for proper scsi_device reference counting and
> it looks strange.
> 
> If we every don't get a reference to the class in scsi_device_put
> or scsi_remove_device we leak references to scsi_devices which
> would be very bad.
> 
> But how could we actually fail to acquire a reference?  This means
> scsi_mod would be unloading which seems impossible as all scsi hosts
> and devices are allocated by modules that use symbols from scsi_mod.
> 
> Should we just rip this stuff out like below?
> 
> 
> --- 1.94/drivers/scsi/hosts.c	Sun Sep 21 19:52:38 2003
> +++ edited/drivers/scsi/hosts.c	Fri Sep 26 17:51:08 2003
> @@ -323,23 +323,20 @@
>   **/
>  struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_lookup(unsigned short hostnum)
>  {
> -	struct class *class = class_get(&shost_class);
> +	struct class *class = &shost_class;
>  	struct class_device *cdev;
>  	struct Scsi_Host *shost = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO), *p;
>  
> -	if (class) {
> -		down_read(&class->subsys.rwsem);
> -		list_for_each_entry(cdev, &class->children, node) {
> -			p = class_to_shost(cdev);
> -			if (p->host_no == hostnum) {
> -				shost = scsi_host_get(p);
> -				break;
> -			}
> +	down_read(&class->subsys.rwsem);
> +	list_for_each_entry(cdev, &class->children, node) {
> +		p = class_to_shost(cdev);
> +		if (p->host_no == hostnum) {
> +			shost = scsi_host_get(p);
> +			break;
>  		}
> -		up_read(&class->subsys.rwsem);
>  	}
> +	up_read(&class->subsys.rwsem);
>  
> -	class_put(&shost_class);
>  	return shost;
>  }
>  
> --- 1.128/drivers/scsi/scsi.c	Sat Sep 20 11:35:19 2003
> +++ edited/drivers/scsi/scsi.c	Fri Sep 26 17:51:33 2003
> @@ -885,10 +885,6 @@
>  
>  int scsi_device_get(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>  {
> -	struct class *class = class_get(&sdev_class);
> -
> -	if (!class)
> -		goto out;
>  	if (test_bit(SDEV_DEL, &sdev->sdev_state))
>  		goto out;
>  	if (!try_module_get(sdev->host->hostt->module))
> @@ -896,29 +892,21 @@
>  	if (!get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev))
>  		goto out_put_module;
>  	atomic_inc(&sdev->access_count);
> -	class_put(&sdev_class);
>  	return 0;
>  
>   out_put_module:
>  	module_put(sdev->host->hostt->module);
>   out:
> -	class_put(&sdev_class);
>  	return -ENXIO;
>  }
>  
>  void scsi_device_put(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>  {
> -	struct class *class = class_get(&sdev_class);
> -
> -	if (!class)
> -		return;
> -
>  	module_put(sdev->host->hostt->module);
>  	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sdev->access_count))
>  		if (test_bit(SDEV_DEL, &sdev->sdev_state))
>  			device_del(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
>  	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
> -	class_put(&sdev_class);
>  }
>  
>  int scsi_device_cancel_cb(struct device *dev, void *data)
> ===== drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c 1.33 vs edited =====
> --- 1.33/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c	Sun Sep 21 12:36:43 2003
> +++ edited/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c	Fri Sep 26 17:52:07 2003
> @@ -403,22 +403,15 @@
>   **/
>  void scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>  {
> -	struct class *class = class_get(&sdev_class);
> -
>  	class_device_unregister(&sdev->sdev_classdev);
>  
> -	if (class) {
> -		down_write(&class->subsys.rwsem);
> -		set_bit(SDEV_DEL, &sdev->sdev_state);
> -		if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
> -			sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
> -		if (atomic_read(&sdev->access_count))
> -			device_del(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
> -		up_write(&class->subsys.rwsem);
> -	}
> +	set_bit(SDEV_DEL, &sdev->sdev_state);
> +	if (sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy)
> +		sdev->host->hostt->slave_destroy(sdev);
> +	if (atomic_read(&sdev->access_count))
> +		device_del(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
>  
>  	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
> -
>  	class_put(&sdev_class);
>  }
>  
-andmike
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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com