The proper API is to pass the groups to device_add_disk, but the code used to also allow groups being set before calling *add_disk. Warn about that but keep the group pointer intact for now so that it can be removed again after a grace period. Fixes: 52b85909f85d ("block: fold register_disk into device_add_disk") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 7b6e5e1cf9564..409cf608cc5bd 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ int device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); ddev->parent = parent; - ddev->groups = groups; + if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(ddev->groups)) + ddev->groups = groups; dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name); if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) ddev->devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor); -- 2.30.2