Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration

[Martin K. Petersen]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:53:06 +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:

> We use device_initialize() to take refcount for the device but forget to
> put_device() on device teardown, which ends up leaking private data of the
> driver core, dev_name(), etc. This is reported by kmemleak at boot time if
> we compile kernel with DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE.
> 
> Note that adding the missing put_device() is _not_ sufficient to fix device
> unregistration. As we don't provide the .release() method for device, which
> turned out to be typically wrong and will be complained loudly by the
> driver core.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.15/scsi-fixes, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: bsg: Fix device unregistration
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/1a0db7744e45

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering