Zero out the pointer to ->slave_dir so that the holder code doesn't incorrectly treat the object as alive when add_disk failed or after del_gendisk was called. Fixes: 89f871af1b26 ("dm: delay registering the gendisk") Reported-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 17b33c62423df..aa0e2f5684543 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, blk_unregister_queue(disk); out_put_slave_dir: kobject_put(disk->slave_dir); + disk->slave_dir = NULL; out_put_holder_dir: kobject_put(disk->part0->bd_holder_dir); out_del_integrity: @@ -624,6 +625,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) kobject_put(disk->part0->bd_holder_dir); kobject_put(disk->slave_dir); + disk->slave_dir = NULL; part_stat_set_all(disk->part0, 0); disk->part0->bd_stamp = 0; -- 2.30.2