[dm-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in error path in alloc_dev

Ishai Rabinovitz ishai at mellanox.co.il
Sun Jul 16 19:30:30 UTC 2006


Hi,

While reading the code I found a bug in the error path in alloc_dev in dm.c

When blk_alloc_queue fails there is no call to free_minor.

This patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ishai Rabinovitz <ishai at mellanox.co.il>

Index: linux-2.6.18-devel/drivers/md/dm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-devel.orig/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-devel/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(i
 
 	md->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!md->queue)
-		goto bad1;
+		goto bad1_free_minor;
 
 	md->queue->queuedata = md;
 	md->queue->backing_dev_info.congested_fn = dm_any_congested;
@@ -953,6 +953,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(i
 	mempool_destroy(md->io_pool);
  bad2:
 	blk_cleanup_queue(md->queue);
+ bad1_free_minor:
 	free_minor(minor);
  bad1:
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
-- 
Ishai Rabinovitz




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