[SCSI] st: Take additional queue ref in st_probe
This patch fixes a reference count bug in the SCSI tape driver which can be
reproduced with the following:
* Boot with slub_debug=FZPU, tape drive attached
* echo 1 > /sys/devices/... tape device pci path .../remove
* Wait for device removal
* echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/blkdev_queue/validate
* Slub debug complains about corrupted poison pattern
In commit 523e1d39 (block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue)
add_disk() and disk_release() were modified to get/put an additional
reference on a disk queue to fix a reference counting discrepency
between bdev release and SCSI device removal. The ST driver never
calls add_disk(), so this commit introduced an extra kref put when the
ST driver frees its struct gendisk.
Attempts were made to fix this bug at the block level [1] but later
abandoned due to floppy driver issues [2].
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/27/354
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/22/113
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Tested-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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