Commit 30c9afa6 authored by Joe Eykholt's avatar Joe Eykholt Committed by James Bottomley

fix race that can give duplicate host number

Just once, two fcoe instances got the same host number
from scsi_add_host().

Use atomic_t and atomic_inc_return() to get next host number.
Subtract 1, so that scsi_host still starts with 0.

[jejb: added comment about unusual subtraction]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Eykholt <jeykholt@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
parent 11198659
......@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
#include "scsi_logging.h"
static int scsi_host_next_hn; /* host_no for next new host */
static atomic_t scsi_host_next_hn; /* host_no for next new host */
static void scsi_host_cls_release(struct device *dev)
......@@ -333,7 +333,11 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_alloc(struct scsi_host_template *sht, int privsize)
mutex_init(&shost->scan_mutex);
shost->host_no = scsi_host_next_hn++; /* XXX(hch): still racy */
/*
* subtract one because we increment first then return, but we need to
* know what the next host number was before increment
*/
shost->host_no = atomic_inc_return(&scsi_host_next_hn) - 1;
shost->dma_channel = 0xff;
/* These three are default values which can be overridden */
......
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