[PATCH] floppy: unregister platform device on add_disk failure

From: Guangshuo Li

Date: Wed Jul 08 2026 - 06:57:58 EST


The change referenced by the Fixes tag reverted a previous fix because
that fix added incorrect cleanup for the platform_device_register()
failure path.

However, reverting the whole change also removed the cleanup for a later
failure path. If platform_device_register() succeeds but device_add_disk()
fails, the current floppy platform device has already been registered and
registered[drive] has been set.

The common out_remove_drives path uses while (drive--), so it starts from
the previous drive and does not unregister the current one. As a result,
the platform device registered for the failing drive is leaked.

Unregister the current platform device directly on the device_add_disk()
failure path, where platform_device_register() is known to have
succeeded. Leave the platform_device_register() failure path unchanged.

Fixes: 895a9b37917d ("Revert "floppy: fix reference leak on platform_device_register() failure"")
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/floppy.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index f04397b8e381..7a34af534460 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -4729,8 +4729,11 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)

err = device_add_disk(&floppy_device[drive].dev,
disks[drive][0], NULL);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ platform_device_unregister(&floppy_device[drive]);
+ registered[drive] = false;
goto out_remove_drives;
+ }
}

return 0;
--
2.43.0