This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: sd: Free scsi_disk device via put_device() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-sd-free-scsi_disk-device-via-put_device.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 004b02c664b6cd54c7ca385dc0701f010e94334a Author: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 6 17:01:12 2021 +0800 scsi: sd: Free scsi_disk device via put_device() [ Upstream commit 265dfe8ebbabae7959060bd1c3f75c2473b697ed ] After a device is initialized via device_initialize() it should be freed via put_device(). sd_probe() currently gets this wrong, fix it up. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210906090112.531442-1-ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 9176fb1b1615..935add4d6f83 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -3146,15 +3146,16 @@ static int sd_probe(struct device *dev) } device_initialize(&sdkp->dev); - sdkp->dev.parent = dev; + sdkp->dev.parent = get_device(dev); sdkp->dev.class = &sd_disk_class; dev_set_name(&sdkp->dev, "%s", dev_name(dev)); error = device_add(&sdkp->dev); - if (error) - goto out_free_index; + if (error) { + put_device(&sdkp->dev); + goto out; + } - get_device(dev); dev_set_drvdata(dev, sdkp); get_device(&sdkp->dev); /* prevent release before async_schedule */