From 541950027f8b7c96a639bc16e48930c590f1b98a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:52:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] fix use after potential free in scsi_remove_device

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index b8052d5206cc..83f87c41b18d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -707,9 +707,11 @@ void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_device *sdev)
  **/
 void scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 {
-	down(&sdev->host->scan_mutex);
+	struct Scsi_Host *shost = sdev->host;
+
+	down(&shost->scan_mutex);
 	__scsi_remove_device(sdev);
-	up(&sdev->host->scan_mutex);
+	up(&shost->scan_mutex);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_remove_device);