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enclosure: fix WARN_ON removing an adapter in multi-path devices

We have peculiar problems with multi-path and enclosures: physically, we know
each bay can only be occupied by a single disk device. However in multi-path,
it appears we have many (because each path to the device appears in Linux as a
different kernel device). We try to fix this by only having the last seen
device show up in the bay.

Sysfs gets very annoyed if we try to manipulate links when the kobject sysfs
directory (kobj.sd) doesn't exist and drops a huge WARN_ON which most users
panic and report an oops for. This happens on a few path removal situations
and IBM reports seeing it when one of their multi-path adapters is removed.

Add a check to enclosure device removal for the existence the sysfs directory
containing both the forward and back links so that the remnants (if any) get
removed in either direction but no scary warnings are dumped.

Reported-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>

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drivers/misc/enclosure.c
··· 202 202 { 203 203 char name[ENCLOSURE_NAME_SIZE]; 204 204 205 + enclosure_link_name(cdev, name); 206 + 205 207 /* 206 208 * In odd circumstances, like multipath devices, something else may 207 209 * already have removed the links, so check for this condition first. 208 210 */ 209 - if (!cdev->dev->kobj.sd) 210 - return; 211 + if (cdev->dev->kobj.sd) 212 + sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name); 211 213 212 - enclosure_link_name(cdev, name); 213 - sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name); 214 - sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device"); 214 + if (cdev->cdev.kobj.sd) 215 + sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device"); 215 216 } 216 217 217 218 static int enclosure_add_links(struct enclosure_component *cdev)