This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libata: transport: Remove circular dependency at free time to the 4.9-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: libata-transport-remove-circular-dependency-at-free-time.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017 From: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 09:00:09 -0800 Subject: libata: transport: Remove circular dependency at free time From: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d85fc67dd11e9a32966140677d4d6429ca540b25 ] Without this patch, failed probe would not free resources like irq. ata port tdev object currently hold a reference to the ata port object. Therefore the ata port object release function will not get called until the ata_tport_release is called. But that would never happen, releasing the last reference of ata port dev is done by scsi_host_release, which is called by ata_host_release when the ata port object is released. The ata device objects actually do not need to explicitly hold a reference to their real counterpart, given the transport objects are the children of these objects and device_add() is call for each child. We know the parent will not be deleted until we call the child's device_del(). Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-transport.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-transport.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-transport.c @@ -224,7 +224,6 @@ static DECLARE_TRANSPORT_CLASS(ata_port_ static void ata_tport_release(struct device *dev) { - put_device(dev->parent); } /** @@ -284,7 +283,7 @@ int ata_tport_add(struct device *parent, device_initialize(dev); dev->type = &ata_port_type; - dev->parent = get_device(parent); + dev->parent = parent; dev->release = ata_tport_release; dev_set_name(dev, "ata%d", ap->print_id); transport_setup_device(dev); @@ -348,7 +347,6 @@ static DECLARE_TRANSPORT_CLASS(ata_link_ static void ata_tlink_release(struct device *dev) { - put_device(dev->parent); } /** @@ -410,7 +408,7 @@ int ata_tlink_add(struct ata_link *link) int error; device_initialize(dev); - dev->parent = get_device(&ap->tdev); + dev->parent = &ap->tdev; dev->release = ata_tlink_release; if (ata_is_host_link(link)) dev_set_name(dev, "link%d", ap->print_id); @@ -589,7 +587,6 @@ static DECLARE_TRANSPORT_CLASS(ata_dev_c static void ata_tdev_release(struct device *dev) { - put_device(dev->parent); } /** @@ -662,7 +659,7 @@ static int ata_tdev_add(struct ata_devic int error; device_initialize(dev); - dev->parent = get_device(&link->tdev); + dev->parent = &link->tdev; dev->release = ata_tdev_release; if (ata_is_host_link(link)) dev_set_name(dev, "dev%d.%d", ap->print_id,ata_dev->devno); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/libata-transport-remove-circular-dependency-at-free-time.patch