From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48068 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965361AbbI2OTK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:19:10 -0400 Subject: Patch "NVMe: Initialize device reference count earlier" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree To: keith.busch@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:19:07 +0200 Message-ID: <14435363473175@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NVMe: Initialize device reference count earlier to the 3.14-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: nvme-initialize-device-reference-count-earlier.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From fb35e914b3f88cda9ee6f9d776910c35269c4ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Busch Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:09:47 -0700 Subject: NVMe: Initialize device reference count earlier From: Keith Busch commit fb35e914b3f88cda9ee6f9d776910c35269c4ecf upstream. If an NVMe device becomes ready but fails to create IO queues, the driver creates a character device handle so the device can be managed. The device reference count needs to be initialized before creating the character device. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c @@ -2464,6 +2464,7 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pd if (result) goto release; + kref_init(&dev->kref); result = nvme_dev_start(dev); if (result) { if (result == -EBUSY) @@ -2471,7 +2472,6 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pd goto release_pools; } - kref_init(&dev->kref); result = nvme_dev_add(dev); if (result) goto shutdown; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keith.busch@intel.com are queue-3.14/nvme-initialize-device-reference-count-earlier.patch