From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix locking in drive_release_dev() * Request queue cleanup should happen before freeing drive->id and marking device as non-present. Fix it. * Remove superfluous hwif->lock acquiring/releasing. Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> --- I noticed this while investigating the host driver removal issue -- lets also fix/test this one while we are at it... drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c @@ -937,20 +937,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_init_disk); static void drive_release_dev (struct device *dev) { ide_drive_t *drive = container_of(dev, ide_drive_t, gendev); - ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif; ide_proc_unregister_device(drive); - spin_lock_irq(&hwif->lock); + blk_cleanup_queue(drive->queue); + drive->queue = NULL; + kfree(drive->id); drive->id = NULL; + drive->dev_flags &= ~IDE_DFLAG_PRESENT; - /* Messed up locking ... */ - spin_unlock_irq(&hwif->lock); - blk_cleanup_queue(drive->queue); - spin_lock_irq(&hwif->lock); - drive->queue = NULL; - spin_unlock_irq(&hwif->lock); complete(&drive->gendev_rel_comp); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html