4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 55ca38b4255bb336c2d35990bdb2b368e19b435a ] I am resubmitting this patch on behalf of Martin Wilck with his permission. The original patch can be found here: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg102083.html This patch did not help until Hannes's commit 9441284fbc39 ("scsi-fixup-kernel-warning-during-rmmod") was applied to the kernel. -------------------------------------- Original patch description from Martin: -------------------------------------- When the hpsa module is unloaded using rmmod, dangling symlinks remain under /sys/class/sas_phy. Fix this by calling sas_phy_delete() rather than sas_phy_free (which, according to comments, should not be called for PHYs that have been set up successfully, anyway). Tested-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -9632,9 +9632,9 @@ static void hpsa_free_sas_phy(struct hps struct sas_phy *phy = hpsa_sas_phy->phy; sas_port_delete_phy(hpsa_sas_phy->parent_port->port, phy); - sas_phy_free(phy); if (hpsa_sas_phy->added_to_port) list_del(&hpsa_sas_phy->phy_list_entry); + sas_phy_delete(phy); kfree(hpsa_sas_phy); }