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

[John Garry]

On 11/09/2021 11:53, 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.
>
> Fix both of them.
>
> Fixes: ead09dd3aed5 ("scsi: bsg: Simplify device registration")
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu<yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx>


FWIW,

Tested-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>