st: do not allocate a gendisk

st is a character driver and thus does not need to allocate a gendisk,
which is only used for file system-like block layer I/O on block
devices.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>

drivers/scsi/st.c

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 }
 
 
-static inline char *tape_name(struct scsi_tape *tape)
-{
-	return tape->disk->disk_name;
-}
-
 #define st_printk(prefix, t, fmt, a...) \
-	sdev_prefix_printk(prefix, (t)->device, tape_name(t), fmt, ##a)
+	sdev_prefix_printk(prefix, (t)->device, (t)->name, fmt, ##a)
 #ifdef DEBUG
 #define DEBC_printk(t, fmt, a...) \
 	if (debugging) { st_printk(ST_DEB_MSG, t, fmt, ##a ); }
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 	int result = SRpnt->result;
 	u8 scode;
 	DEB(const char *stp;)
-	char *name = tape_name(STp);
+	char *name = STp->name;
 	struct st_cmdstatus *cmdstatp;
 
 	if (!result)
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 			    !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 				i = -EPERM;
 			else
-				i = scsi_cmd_ioctl(STp->disk->queue, STp->disk,
-						   file->f_mode, cmd_in, p);
+				i = scsi_cmd_ioctl(STp->device->request_queue,
+						   NULL, file->f_mode, cmd_in,
+						   p);
 			if (i != -ENOTTY)
 				return i;
 			break;
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 	i = mode << (4 - ST_NBR_MODE_BITS);
 	snprintf(name, 10, "%s%s%s", rew ? "n" : "",
-		 tape->disk->disk_name, st_formats[i]);
+		 tape->name, st_formats[i]);
 
 	dev = device_create(&st_sysfs_class, &tape->device->sdev_gendev,
 			    cdev_devno, &tape->modes[mode], "%s", name);
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 static int st_probe(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct scsi_device *SDp = to_scsi_device(dev);
-	struct gendisk *disk = NULL;
 	struct scsi_tape *tpnt = NULL;
 	struct st_modedef *STm;
 	struct st_partstat *STps;
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 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	disk = alloc_disk(1);
-	if (!disk) {
-		sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, SDp,
-			    "st: out of memory. Device not attached.\n");
-		goto out_buffer_free;
-	}
-
 	tpnt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (tpnt == NULL) {
 		sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, SDp,
 			    "st: Can't allocate device descriptor.\n");
-		goto out_put_disk;
+		goto out_buffer_free;
 	}
 	kref_init(&tpnt->kref);
-	tpnt->disk = disk;
-	disk->private_data = &tpnt->driver;
-	/* SCSI tape doesn't register this gendisk via add_disk().  Manually
-	 * take queue reference that release_disk() expects. */
-	if (!blk_get_queue(SDp->request_queue))
-		goto out_put_disk;
-	disk->queue = SDp->request_queue;
 	tpnt->driver = &st_template;
 
 	tpnt->device = SDp;
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 	idr_preload_end();
 	if (error < 0) {
 		pr_warn("st: idr allocation failed: %d\n", error);
-		goto out_put_queue;
+		goto out_free_tape;
 	}
 	tpnt->index = error;
-	sprintf(disk->disk_name, "st%d", tpnt->index);
+	sprintf(tpnt->name, "st%d", tpnt->index);
 	tpnt->stats = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scsi_tape_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (tpnt->stats == NULL) {
 		sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, SDp,
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 	scsi_autopm_put_device(SDp);
 
 	sdev_printk(KERN_NOTICE, SDp,
-		    "Attached scsi tape %s\n", tape_name(tpnt));
+		    "Attached scsi tape %s\n", tpnt->name);
 	sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, SDp, "%s: try direct i/o: %s (alignment %d B)\n",
-		    tape_name(tpnt), tpnt->try_dio ? "yes" : "no",
+		    tpnt->name, tpnt->try_dio ? "yes" : "no",
 		    queue_dma_alignment(SDp->request_queue) + 1);
 
 	return 0;
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 	spin_lock(&st_index_lock);
 	idr_remove(&st_index_idr, tpnt->index);
 	spin_unlock(&st_index_lock);
-out_put_queue:
-	blk_put_queue(disk->queue);
-out_put_disk:
-	put_disk(disk);
+out_free_tape:
 	kfree(tpnt);
 out_buffer_free:
 	kfree(buffer);
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 static void scsi_tape_release(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct scsi_tape *tpnt = to_scsi_tape(kref);
-	struct gendisk *disk = tpnt->disk;
 
 	tpnt->device = NULL;
 
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 		kfree(tpnt->buffer);
 	}
 
-	disk->private_data = NULL;
-	put_disk(disk);
 	kfree(tpnt->stats);
 	kfree(tpnt);
 	return;

drivers/scsi/st.h

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 	unsigned char last_cmnd[6];
 	unsigned char last_sense[16];
 #endif
-	struct gendisk *disk;
+	char name[DISK_NAME_LEN];
 	struct kref     kref;
 	struct scsi_tape_stats *stats;
 };