This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails. to the 4.12-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-ses-do-not-add-a-device-to-an-enclosure-if-enclosure_add_links-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:53:27 +0200 Subject: scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails. From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756 upstream. The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't create the relevant sysfs links. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: James Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c +++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosur struct device *dev) { struct enclosure_component *cdev; + int err; if (!edev || component >= edev->components) return -EINVAL; @@ -384,12 +385,17 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosur if (cdev->dev == dev) return -EEXIST; - if (cdev->dev) + if (cdev->dev) { enclosure_remove_links(cdev); - - put_device(cdev->dev); + put_device(cdev->dev); + } cdev->dev = get_device(dev); - return enclosure_add_links(cdev); + err = enclosure_add_links(cdev); + if (err) { + put_device(cdev->dev); + cdev->dev = NULL; + } + return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enclosure_add_device); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/scsi-ses-do-not-add-a-device-to-an-enclosure-if-enclosure_add_links-fails.patch