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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-07-15 01:29:34 +0400 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-07-15 01:29:34 +0400 |
| commit | 2fceef397f9880b212a74c418290ce69e7ac00eb (patch) | |
| tree | d9cc09ab992825ef7fede4a688103503e3caf655 /drivers/scsi/hosts.c | |
| parent | feae1ef116ed381625d3731c5ae4f4ebcb3fa302 (diff) | |
| parent | bce7f793daec3e65ec5c5705d2457b81fe7b5725 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2fceef397f9880b212a74c418290ce69e7ac00eb.tar.xz | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/hosts.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c index 3690360d7a79..c6457bfc8a49 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c @@ -456,6 +456,10 @@ static int __scsi_host_match(struct device *dev, void *data) * * Return value: * A pointer to located Scsi_Host or NULL. + * + * The caller must do a scsi_host_put() to drop the reference + * that scsi_host_get() took. The put_device() below dropped + * the reference from class_find_device(). **/ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_lookup(unsigned short hostnum) { @@ -463,9 +467,10 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_lookup(unsigned short hostnum) struct Scsi_Host *shost = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO); cdev = class_find_device(&shost_class, &hostnum, __scsi_host_match); - if (cdev) + if (cdev) { shost = scsi_host_get(class_to_shost(cdev)); - + put_device(cdev); + } return shost; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_host_lookup); |