Re: scsi: bsg-lib: drop device reference on error path

[Chaitanya Kulkarni]

Hi Pan,

Thanks for the patch, purely cosmetics comments below.

On 4/16/19 8:27 PM, Pan Bian wrote:
> The function put_device is not called to drop the device reference taken
> by get_device on error paths. This patch fixes the bug.
> 
> Fixes: cd2f076f1d7("bsg: convert to use blk-mq")
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   block/bsg-lib.c | 11 +++++++----
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/bsg-lib.c b/block/bsg-lib.c
> index 005e2b7..fe9e0cc 100644
> --- a/block/bsg-lib.c
> +++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
> @@ -281,21 +281,24 @@ static blk_status_t bsg_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
>   	struct bsg_set *bset =
>   		container_of(q->tag_set, struct bsg_set, tag_set);
>   	int ret;
> +	blk_status_t status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
>   
Not sure if we need status variable as the code written here pretty 
straight forward.
>   	blk_mq_start_request(req);
>   
>   	if (!get_device(dev))
> -		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
> +		return status;
>   
Also if we are still considering having status variable then we should 
add "err:" label at the end of function just before return and use that 
for an error instead of having multiple returns.
>   	if (!bsg_prepare_job(dev, req))
> -		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
> +		goto out;
>   
>   	ret = bset->job_fn(blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req));
>   	if (ret)
> -		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
> +		goto out;
>   
> +	status = BLK_STS_OK;
> +out:
>   	put_device(dev);
> -	return BLK_STS_OK;
> +	return status;
>   }
>   
>   /* called right after the request is allocated for the request_queue */
>