linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: unregister device if device_add_disk() failed in sd

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Date: Mon,  1 Apr 2024 21:48:36 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: jejb@...ux.ibm.com, mcgrof@...nel.org, linan666@...weicloud.com
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linan122@...wei.com, yukuai3@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com,
        houtao1@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: unregister device if device_add_disk() failed in sd_probe()

On Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:23:35 +0800, linan666@...weicloud.com wrote:

> "if device_add() succeeds, you should call device_del() when you want to
> get rid of it."
> 
> In sd_probe(), device_add_disk() fails when device_add() has already
> succeeded, so change put_device() to device_unregister() to ensure device
> resources are released.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.9/scsi-fixes, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: sd: unregister device if device_add_disk() failed in sd_probe()
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/0296bea01cfa

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering