[PATCH 4.4 10/49] scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Aug 14 2016 - 16:23:56 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

commit 221255aee67ec1c752001080aafec0c4e9390d95 upstream.

device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
cause us to disable the device entirely.
So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1058,11 +1058,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_devi
}

error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
- if (error) {
+ if (error)
+ /*
+ * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored
+ */
sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
"failed to add device handler: %d\n", error);
- return error;
- }

device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);