On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 09:48 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > If scsi_target_block() fails that can break the code that calls this > function. Hence complain loudly if scsi_target_block() fails. > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > index bbed72eff9c9..c9630bd59b5a 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > @@ -2770,6 +2770,8 @@ int scsi_target_block(struct device *dev) > else > device_for_each_child(dev, &ret, target_block); > > + WARN_ONCE(ret, "ret = %d\n", ret); > + If this is the only point to the previous change to make SCSI target block return an error, why not put the WARN_ONCE in device_block? That way you'll at least know which device was the problem. James