Re: [PATCH] block: Fix an error handling in add_partition

[Chaitanya Kulkarni]

On 1/15/21 11:34 PM, Dinghao Liu wrote:
> Once we have called device_initialize(), we should
> use put_device() to give up the reference on error,
> just like what we have done on failure of device_add().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Please consider having following commit message, since above
commit message is looking odd from what we have in the tree :-


Once we have called device_initialize(), we should use put_device() to
give up the reference on error, just like what we have done on failure
of device_add().


Also have you tested this patch with the with generating appropriate error ?