The current behaviour is to fall back to allocate bio from 'fs_bio_set', that isn't a correct way because it might cause deadlock. So this patch simply return failure if mddev->bio_set can't be created. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 7e9a495e4160..b5e2adf3493b 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5228,8 +5228,11 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev) sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(rdev->sysfs_state); } - if (mddev->bio_set == NULL) + if (mddev->bio_set == NULL) { mddev->bio_set = bioset_create(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0); + if (!mddev->bio_set) + return -ENOMEM; + } spin_lock(&pers_lock); pers = find_pers(mddev->level, mddev->clevel); -- 2.7.4