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[SCSI] sg: fix leak when dio setup fails

when the sg driver is unable to setup direct IO, free that scatter
gather list prior to falling back to indirect IO

Further to this thread started by Bryan Holty:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114306885116728&w=2

Here is the reworked patch again. This time it has been
tested with a program provided by Bryan.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Douglas Gilbert 19 years ago
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      drivers/scsi/sg.c

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drivers/scsi/sg.c

@@ -1799,8 +1799,10 @@ sg_build_direct(Sg_request * srp, Sg_fd * sfp, int dxfer_len)
 	res = st_map_user_pages(schp->buffer, mx_sc_elems,
 				(unsigned long)hp->dxferp, dxfer_len, 
 				(SG_DXFER_TO_DEV == hp->dxfer_direction) ? 1 : 0);
-	if (res <= 0)
+	if (res <= 0) {
+		sg_remove_scat(schp);
 		return 1;
+	}
 	schp->k_use_sg = res;
 	schp->dio_in_use = 1;
 	hp->info |= SG_INFO_DIRECT_IO;