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Commit 3ed78972 authored by Mike Christie's avatar Mike Christie Committed by James Bottomley
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[SCSI] scsi_host regression: fix scsi host leak

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Author: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 22 14:01:34 2008 +0800

    scsi: use class iteration api

Isn't a correct replacement for the original hand rolled host
lookup. The problem is that class_find_child would get a reference to
the host's class device which is never released.  Since the host class
device holds a reference to the host gendev, the host can never be
freed.

In 2.6.26 we started using class_find_device, and this function also
gets a reference to the device, so we end up with an extra ref
and the host will not get released.

This patch adds a put_device to balance the class_find_device() get. I
kept the scsi_host_get in scsi_host_lookup, because the target layer
is using scsi_host_lookup and it looks like it needs the SHOST_DEL
check.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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