When the device is created but it hasn't yet been inserted into the hash list a concurrent call to __find_device_hash_cell() was failing to release the reference to the mapped device. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.18/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -608,6 +608,8 @@ static struct hash_cell *__find_device_h md = dm_get_md(huge_decode_dev(param->dev)); if (md) mdptr = dm_get_mdptr(md); + if (md && !mdptr) + dm_put(md); return mdptr; } -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
