linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration

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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:40:49 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        johan@...nel.org, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, hch@....de,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com,
        axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration

On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:53:06 +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:

> We use device_initialize() to take refcount for the device but forget to
> put_device() on device teardown, which ends up leaking private data of the
> driver core, dev_name(), etc. This is reported by kmemleak at boot time if
> we compile kernel with DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
> 
> Note that adding the missing put_device() is _not_ sufficient to fix device
> unregistration. As we don't provide the .release() method for device, which
> turned out to be typically wrong and will be complained loudly by the
> driver core.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.15/scsi-fixes, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/1a0db7744e45

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering