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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2014-09-13 19:41:16 -0700
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2014-11-12 11:19:22 +0100
commit27c888f0bb889693c6a3b6d39eba3265c16c072f (patch)
tree26513aa57507d3bac7e027eb8561d3d555d8f44d /drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
parent0b9c08442c5d0991dd1632fed63221f5b6a35e83 (diff)
scsi_dh: get module reference outside of device handler
We need to grab a reference to the module before calling the attach routines to avoid a small race vs module removal. It also cleans up the code significantly as a side effect. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
index fd78bdc53528..9115c31f26e9 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
@@ -873,9 +873,6 @@ static int alua_bus_attach(struct scsi_device *sdev)
if ((err != SCSI_DH_OK) && (err != SCSI_DH_DEV_OFFLINED))
goto failed;
- if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
- goto failed;
-
spin_lock_irqsave(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock, flags);
sdev->scsi_dh_data = scsi_dh_data;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock, flags);
@@ -908,7 +905,6 @@ static void alua_bus_detach(struct scsi_device *sdev)
if (h->buff && h->inq != h->buff)
kfree(h->buff);
kfree(scsi_dh_data);
- module_put(THIS_MODULE);
sdev_printk(KERN_NOTICE, sdev, "%s: Detached\n", ALUA_DH_NAME);
}