iscsi_tcp and iser cannot be rmmod from the kernel when sessions are running because session removal is driven from userspace. For those modules we get a module reference when a session is created then drop it when the session is removed. For qla4xxx, they can jsut remove the sessions from the pci remove function like normal HW drivers, so this patch moves the module reference from the transport class functions shared by all drivers to the libiscsi functions only used be software iscsi modules. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c index 7c76a98..7e6e031 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c @@ -1287,13 +1287,18 @@ iscsi_session_setup(struct iscsi_transpo if (scsi_add_host(shost, NULL)) goto add_host_fail; + if (!try_module_get(iscsit->owner)) + goto cls_session_fail; + cls_session = iscsi_create_session(shost, iscsit, 0); if (!cls_session) - goto cls_session_fail; + goto module_put; *(unsigned long*)shost->hostdata = (unsigned long)cls_session; return cls_session; +module_put: + module_put(iscsit->owner); cls_session_fail: scsi_remove_host(shost); add_host_fail: @@ -1325,6 +1330,7 @@ void iscsi_session_teardown(struct iscsi iscsi_destroy_session(cls_session); scsi_host_put(shost); + module_put(cls_session->transport->owner); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_session_teardown); --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c @@ -228,13 +228,11 @@ static struct iscsi_cls_conn *iscsi_conn static void iscsi_session_release(struct device *dev) { struct iscsi_cls_session *session = iscsi_dev_to_session(dev); - struct iscsi_transport *transport = session->transport; struct Scsi_Host *shost; shost = iscsi_session_to_shost(session); scsi_host_put(shost); kfree(session); - module_put(transport->owner); } static int iscsi_is_session_dev(const struct device *dev) @@ -305,13 +303,11 @@ iscsi_create_session(struct Scsi_Host *s struct iscsi_cls_session *session; int err; - if (!try_module_get(transport->owner)) - return NULL; - session = kzalloc(sizeof(*session) + transport->sessiondata_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!session) - goto module_put; + return NULL; + session->transport = transport; session->recovery_tmo = 120; INIT_WORK(&session->recovery_work, session_recovery_timedout, session); @@ -349,8 +345,6 @@ iscsi_create_session(struct Scsi_Host *s free_session: kfree(session); -module_put: - module_put(transport->owner); return NULL; } - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html