Re: 3.15-mw: Oops Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) RIP: e030:[<ffffffff814c6bc1>] [<ffffffff814c6bc1>] kobject_put+0x11/0x70

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just ran into the oops belowafter some uptime.

Classic use after free introduced by my recent changes, sorry.

This should fix it:

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: scsi: don't reference freed command in scsi_init_sgtable

When scsi_init_io fails we have to release our device reference, but
we do this trying to reference the just freed command.  Add a local
scsi_device pointer to fix this.

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 65a123d..54eff6a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@ static int scsi_init_sgtable(struct request *req, struct scsi_data_buffer *sdb,
  */
 int scsi_init_io(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
+	struct scsi_device *sdev = cmd->device;
 	struct request *rq = cmd->request;
 
 	int error = scsi_init_sgtable(rq, &cmd->sdb, gfp_mask);
@@ -1091,7 +1092,7 @@ err_exit:
 	scsi_release_buffers(cmd);
 	cmd->request->special = NULL;
 	scsi_put_command(cmd);
-	put_device(&cmd->device->sdev_gendev);
+	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 	return error;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_init_io);