This patch allows to pass in a NULL hardware handler to scsi_dh_attach(), causing the reference count of the existing hardware handler to be increased. An error will be returned if no hardware handler is attached. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c index 48e46f5..77fa67e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c @@ -475,10 +475,14 @@ int scsi_dh_attach(struct request_queue *q, const char *name) { unsigned long flags; struct scsi_device *sdev; - struct scsi_device_handler *scsi_dh; + struct scsi_device_handler *scsi_dh = NULL; int err = 0; - scsi_dh = get_device_handler(name); + if (name) { + scsi_dh = get_device_handler(name); + } else if (sdev->scsi_dh_data) { + scsi_dh = sdev->scsi_dh_data->scsi_dh; + } if (!scsi_dh) return -EINVAL; -- 1.7.7 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel