Once a kobject is initialized, the containing object should not be
directly freed. So delay initialization until it is added. Also
remove the kobject_del call as the last put will remove the kobject as
well. The explicitly delete isn't needed here, and dropping it will
simplify further fixes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index b64de313838f2..a49ddc9454ff6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -678,7 +678,6 @@ static void md_safemode_timeout(struct timer_list *t);
void mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
{
- kobject_init(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype);
mutex_init(&mddev->open_mutex);
mutex_init(&mddev->reconfig_mutex);
mutex_init(&mddev->bitmap_info.mutex);
@@ -5617,7 +5616,6 @@ static void mddev_delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws)
{
struct mddev *mddev = container_of(ws, struct mddev, del_work);
- kobject_del(&mddev->kobj);
kobject_put(&mddev->kobj);
}
@@ -5719,6 +5717,7 @@ int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
if (error)
goto out_cleanup_disk;
+ kobject_init(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype);
error = kobject_add(&mddev->kobj, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "%s", "md");
if (error)
goto out_del_gendisk;
--
2.30.2
