Patch "scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 221255aee67ec1c752001080aafec0c4e9390d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:16:42 +0100
Subject: scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

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@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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@suse.de are

queue-4.4/scsi-ignore-errors-from-scsi_dh_add_device.patch