[PATCH v3 6/8] dm: add add_disk() error handling

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Sun Sep 5 23:19:02 PDT 2021


On 8/30/21 11:25 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> We never checked for errors on add_disk() as this function
> returned void. Now that this is fixed, use the shiny new
> error handling.
> 
> There are two calls to dm_setup_md_queue() which can fail then,
> one on dm_early_create() and we can easily see that the error path
> there calls dm_destroy in the error path. The other use case is on
> the ioctl table_load case. If that fails userspace needs to call
> the DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD to cleanup the state - similar to any other
> failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/md/dm.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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