This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm: fix alloc_dax error handling in alloc_dev
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dm-fix-alloc_dax-error-handling-in-alloc_dev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e3d093f4918149685ca9303b91f9a9f61482178e
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 29 11:21:35 2021 +0100
dm: fix alloc_dax error handling in alloc_dev
[ Upstream commit d751939235b9b7bc4af15f90a3e99288a8b844a7 ]
Make sure ->dax_dev is NULL on error so that the cleanup path doesn't
trip over an ERR_PTR.
Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129102203.2243509-2-hch@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 76d9da49fda75..671bb454f1649 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1794,8 +1794,10 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER)) {
md->dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, md->disk->disk_name,
&dm_dax_ops, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev))
+ if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev)) {
+ md->dax_dev = NULL;
goto bad;
+ }
}
format_dev_t(md->name, MKDEV(_major, minor));
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