Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 4 authors, 2021-09-21
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[PATCH 3/3] block: warn if ->groups is set when calling add_disk

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-09-20 07:29:59
Also in: nvdimm
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

The proper API is to pass the groups to device_add_disk, but the code
used to also allow groups being set before calling *add_disk.  Warn
about that but keep the group pointer intact for now so that it can
be removed again after a grace period.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixes: 52b85909f85d ("block: fold register_disk into device_add_disk")
---
 block/genhd.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 7b6e5e1cf9564..409cf608cc5bd 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ int device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
 
 	ddev->parent = parent;
-	ddev->groups = groups;
+	if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(ddev->groups))
+		ddev->groups = groups;
 	dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN))
 		ddev->devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor);
-- 
2.30.2
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