Re: [PATCH] Fix a memory leak in scsi_host_dev_release()

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:49:42AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 03:52 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >the memory leak looks real, and your fix looks corret, but I still
> >don't like it.
> >
> >I think it's reasonable for SCSI to assume that the final put_device
> >fully frees the struct device including the name pointer that is
> >assigned entirely behind the back of the caller.
> >
> >So I think the fix for this probably should be in the driver core.
> 
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. However, I'm not sure this can be fixed by
> modifying the driver core. If scsi_host_remove() is not called the SCSI core
> doesn't call put_device(&shost->shost_dev). I will post a second version of
> this patch that ensures that the SCSI core always calls
> put_device(&shost->shost_dev).


Oh, I see.  The release method is called on shost_gendev, but the
name that needs to be freed is in shost_dev.  I take my comment on the
core back.

Let's get this patch in for now and see if we can do something about the
creative driver model (ab-)use for struct Scsi_Host in the long run.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>