[PATCH 0/2] scsi: leapraid: fix firmware log mmap lifetime

Linmao Li <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:19:59 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.scsi,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The firmware log mmap path has two related lifetime issues.  VMA clones
drop Scsi_Host references that they never acquired, and device removal
can free the coherent log buffer while mmap is still setting up a VMA.

Patch 1 gives each VMA its own host device reference.  Patch 2 claims a
temporary mmap activity reference under the adapter-list lock so teardown
cannot miss an in-progress mapping.

Patch 2 depends on patch 1: patch 1 keeps adapter non-NULL on the
successful mmap path, allowing patch 2 to drop the temporary mmap
reference at out_put.  Applied alone, patch 2 would leak that reference
and make teardown wait indefinitely.

Neither patch has been tested on hardware; both are derived from the
reference counting and locking in the code.

Linmao Li (2):
  scsi: leapraid: balance host references for firmware log VMAs
  scsi: leapraid: serialize firmware log mmap with teardown

 drivers/scsi/leapraid/leapraid_app.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


base-commit: 376a3960e5efe85ff765abfb5b5b7e4655ad6aed
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