[PATCH] scsi: sim710: put SCSI host on remove

From: Guangshuo Li

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 13:43:23 EST


sim710_probe_common() obtains a SCSI host through NCR_700_detect().
The probe failure path drops the host reference with scsi_host_put(),
but the normal remove path does not perform the corresponding cleanup.

As a result, the SCSI host reference remains allocated after the
device is removed.

Call scsi_host_put() after all users of the SCSI host have been torn
down to release the reference acquired during probe.

This issue was found by manual code inspection.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/sim710.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sim710.c b/drivers/scsi/sim710.c
index 408f37003748..c3454e04c1e7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sim710.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sim710.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static int sim710_device_remove(struct device *dev)
kfree(hostdata);
free_irq(host->irq, host);
release_region(host->base, 64);
+ scsi_host_put(host);
return 0;
}

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