Ok, coming back to this path as it's the start of somethign building up over various patches: > + pg = kzalloc(sizeof(struct alua_port_group), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!pg) { > + sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdev, > + "%s: kzalloc port group failed\n", > + ALUA_DH_NAME); > + /* Temporary failure, bypass */ > + return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY; > + } > + pg->group_id = group_id; > + pg->buff = pg->inq; > + pg->bufflen = ALUA_INQUIRY_SIZE; > + pg->tpgs = h->tpgs; > + pg->state = TPGS_STATE_OPTIMIZED; > + kref_init(&pg->kref); > + spin_lock(&port_group_lock); > + list_add(&pg->node, &port_group_list); > + h->pg = pg; > + spin_unlock(&port_group_lock); > + > + return SCSI_DH_OK; All this code isn't really checking the VPD anymore. Please keep the existing alua_check_vpd as a low-level helper, and move this new functionality into a separate alua_find_get_pg function that calls the original alua_check_vpd. Also please return the pg from it so that we c > @@ -596,13 +643,12 @@ static int alua_initialize(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct alua_dh_data *h) > goto out; > > err = alua_check_vpd(sdev, h); > - if (err != SCSI_DH_OK) > - goto out; > - > - err = alua_rtpg(sdev, h, 0); > - if (err != SCSI_DH_OK) > + if (err != SCSI_DH_OK || !h->pg) > goto out; How could we end up here without h->pg? Either way that should move into a conditional together with the kref_get which should become the not_zero variant if it is kept. -- 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