Re: [PATCH] loop: remember whether sysfs_create_group() succeeded

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On 5/4/18 5:47 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>From 626d33de1b70b11ecaf95a9f83f7644998e54cbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 23:03:48 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] loop: remember whether sysfs_create_group() succeeded
> 
> syzbot is hitting WARN() triggered by memory allocation fault
> injection [1] because loop module is calling sysfs_remove_group()
> when sysfs_create_group() failed.
> Fix this by remembering whether sysfs_create_group() succeeded.

Can we store this locally instead of in the loop_device? Also,
naming wise, something like sysfs_init_done would be more readily
understandable.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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