On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:18 -0500, wenxiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi James, > > Our test teams still see lots of these errors in error log when dlpar removing > the adapter in dual configuration. So I re-submit the patch. OK so in this case you have two struct devices for one bay (one for each path). The links are screwed up because a bay only points at one device (although each device points to an enclosure). We have a check, so the enclosure backlink points to the first device it encountered. The scope for cockups in this situation is huge (like if the device the enclosure points to gets removed > diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c > index 38552a3..0d20e19 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c > @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ static void enclosure_remove_links(struct enclosure_component *cdev) > if (!cdev->dev->kobj.sd) > return; > > + if (!cdev->cdev.kobj.sd) > + return; > + > enclosure_link_name(cdev, name); > sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name); > sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device"); This doesn't look right: for this to work it means you have to have a dev with a kernfs link but a cdev without one. We probably still need to remove the dangling dev link. Does this work? It should remove either link if they exist. James --- diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c index 38552a3..65fed71 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c +++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c @@ -202,16 +202,17 @@ static void enclosure_remove_links(struct enclosure_component *cdev) { char name[ENCLOSURE_NAME_SIZE]; + enclosure_link_name(cdev, name); + /* * In odd circumstances, like multipath devices, something else may * already have removed the links, so check for this condition first. */ - if (!cdev->dev->kobj.sd) - return; + if (cdev->dev->kobj.sd) + sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name); - enclosure_link_name(cdev, name); - sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name); - sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device"); + if (cdev->cdev.kobj.sd) + sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device"); } static int enclosure_add_links(struct enclosure_component *cdev) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html