[PATCH] scsi: fix crash in scsi_remove_host after alloc failure

From: Khazhismel Kumykov
Date: Mon Oct 17 2022 - 13:11:58 EST


If transport_register_device returns error, shost_gendev has already
been cleaned up - however since we ignore the error device setup
continues happily. We will eventually call transport_unregister_device,
attempting to delete shost_gendev again, resulting in a crash.

It looks like when this cleanup behavior was added, iscsi was updated,
but scsi was missed.

Fixes: cd7ea70bb00a ("scsi: drivers: base: Propagate errors through the transport component")

Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index c95177ca6ed2..722ab042fbd7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1599,7 +1599,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_register_interface);
**/
int scsi_sysfs_add_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
{
- transport_register_device(&shost->shost_gendev);
+ int err;
+
+ err = transport_register_device(&shost->shost_gendev);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
transport_configure_device(&shost->shost_gendev);
return 0;
}
--
2.38.0.413.g74048e4d9e-goog