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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:16:42 +0100
Subject: scsi: ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device()

device handler initialisation might fail due to a number of
reasons. But as device_handlers are optional this shouldn't
cause us to disable the device entirely.
So just ignore errors from scsi_dh_add_device().

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
index fc3cd26..d015374 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
@@ -1120,11 +1120,12 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev)
 	}
 
 	error = scsi_dh_add_device(sdev);
-	if (error) {
+	if (error)
+		/*
+		 * device_handler is optional, so any error can be ignored
+		 */
 		sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev,
 				"failed to add device handler: %d\n", error);
-		return error;
-	}
 
 	device_enable_async_suspend(&sdev->sdev_dev);
 	error = device_add(&sdev->sdev_dev);
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