On 2020-04-24 15:32, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 04:40:45PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 4/19/20 12:45 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote: >>> Through code inspection I've found that we don't put_device() if >>> device_add() fails, and this must be done to decrement its refcount. >> >> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> > > Turns out this is wrong, as bdi needs it still, we have can only remove > it once all users are done, which should be at the disk_release() path. > > I've found this while adding the errors paths missing. Hi Luis, I had a look at the comments above device_add() before I added my Reviewed-by. Now that I've had another look at these comments and also at the device_add() implementation I agree that we don't need this patch. Bart.