nvme: split device add from initialization
Combining both creates an ambiguous cleanup scenario for the caller if an error is returned: does the device reference need to be dropped or did the error occur before the device was initialized? If an error occurs after the device is added, then the existing cleanup routines will leak memory. Furthermore, the nvme core is taking it upon itself to free the device's kobj name under certain conditions rather than go through the core device API. We shouldn't be peaking into these implementation details. Split the device initialization from the addition to make it easier to know the error handling actions, fix the existing memory leaks, and stop the device layering violations. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/c4050a37-ecc9-462c-9772-65e25166f439@grimberg.me/Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
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