4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlomb...@redhat.com>

commit 62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756 upstream.

The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't create the
relevant sysfs links.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlomb...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Douglas Miller <dougm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <j...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/misc/enclosure.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosur
                         struct device *dev)
 {
        struct enclosure_component *cdev;
+       int err;
 
        if (!edev || component >= edev->components)
                return -EINVAL;
@@ -384,12 +385,17 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosur
        if (cdev->dev == dev)
                return -EEXIST;
 
-       if (cdev->dev)
+       if (cdev->dev) {
                enclosure_remove_links(cdev);
-
-       put_device(cdev->dev);
+               put_device(cdev->dev);
+       }
        cdev->dev = get_device(dev);
-       return enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+       err = enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+       if (err) {
+               put_device(cdev->dev);
+               cdev->dev = NULL;
+       }
+       return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enclosure_add_device);
 


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