[PATCH] scsi: ch: Remove the minor from ch_index_idr after device_destroy()

From: Changyul Lee

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 11:24:00 EST


ch_remove() removes the minor from ch_index_idr before device_destroy()
removes the "sch<N>" device. A changer probed in between can get the
same minor, and its device_create() fails:

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/scsi_changer/sch0'
...
ch 1:0:0:0: ch0: device_create failed

The new changer is then not attached.

Replace the IDR entry with NULL instead, so that ch_open() still fails
with -ENXIO for the changer being removed, and remove the minor after
device_destroy().

Fixes: da707c54c342 ("[SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug")
Signed-off-by: Changyul Lee <lcy8047@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Reproduced in QEMU (x86_64) with scsi_debug (ptype=8, add_host=2),
which gives two changers on two hosts. Two threads, one per host,
delete the changer through sysfs and rescan the host in a loop for 20
seconds. Without this patch, device_create() failed 992 to 1151 times
per run in three runs. With it, it never failed in two runs, and
/dev/sch0 can still be opened before and after a delete and rescan.

drivers/scsi/ch.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ch.c b/drivers/scsi/ch.c
index b2c9fb71c9e0..390425671a3a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ch.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ch.c
@@ -952,11 +952,15 @@ static void ch_remove(struct scsi_device *sd)
scsi_changer *ch = dev_get_drvdata(dev);

spin_lock(&ch_index_lock);
- idr_remove(&ch_index_idr, ch->minor);
+ idr_replace(&ch_index_idr, NULL, ch->minor);
dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
spin_unlock(&ch_index_lock);

device_destroy(&ch_sysfs_class, MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR, ch->minor));
+
+ spin_lock(&ch_index_lock);
+ idr_remove(&ch_index_idr, ch->minor);
+ spin_unlock(&ch_index_lock);
scsi_device_put(ch->device);
kref_put(&ch->ref, ch_destroy);
}

base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
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2.43.0