Patch "scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails." 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: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

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-ses-do-not-add-a-device-to-an-enclosure-if-enclosure_add_links-fails.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 62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
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@redhat.com>

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@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/scsi-ses-do-not-add-a-device-to-an-enclosure-if-enclosure_add_links-fails.patch