On 02/06/2021 14:30, Ming Lei wrote:

After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is
set via dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(),
otherwise device name will be leaked because it is allocated
dynamically in dev_set_name().

Fixes the issue by replacing kfree(shost) via put_device(&shost->shost_gendev)
which can help to free dev_name(&shost->shost_dev) when host state is
in SHOST_CREATED. Meantime needn't to remove IDA and stop the kthread of
shost->ehandler in the error handling code.

Cc: Bart Van Assche<bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: John Garry<redacted>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke<hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei<redacted>

Reviewed-by: John Garry <redacted>