This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_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-ignore-errors-from-scsi_dh_add_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.
>From 221255aee67ec1c752001080aafec0c4e9390d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:16:42 +0100
Subject: scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
commit 221255aee67ec1c752001080aafec0c4e9390d95 upstream.
device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
cause us to disable the device entirely.
So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1058,11 +1058,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_devi
}
error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
- if (error) {
+ if (error)
+ /*
+ * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored
+ */
sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
"failed to add device handler: %d\n", error);
- return error;
- }
device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hare@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/scsi-ignore-errors-from-scsi_dh_add_device.patch
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