Instead of returning an existing mddev, just for it to be discarded later directly return -EEXIST. Rename the function to mddev_alloc now that it doesn't find an existing mddev. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index ea9c92c113619b..e614c40ca58974 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -782,26 +782,24 @@ static struct mddev *mddev_find(dev_t unit) return mddev; } -static struct mddev *mddev_find_or_alloc(dev_t unit) +static struct mddev *mddev_alloc(dev_t unit) { - struct mddev *mddev = NULL, *new; + struct mddev *new; + int error; if (unit && MAJOR(unit) != MD_MAJOR) unit &= ~((1 << MdpMinorShift) - 1); new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); mddev_init(new); spin_lock(&all_mddevs_lock); if (unit) { - mddev = mddev_find_locked(unit); - if (mddev) { - mddev_get(mddev); + error = -EEXIST; + if (mddev_find_locked(unit)) goto out_free_new; - } - new->unit = unit; if (MAJOR(unit) == MD_MAJOR) new->md_minor = MINOR(unit); @@ -809,6 +807,7 @@ static struct mddev *mddev_find_or_alloc(dev_t unit) new->md_minor = MINOR(unit) >> MdpMinorShift; new->hold_active = UNTIL_IOCTL; } else { + error = -ENODEV; new->unit = mddev_alloc_unit(); if (!new->unit) goto out_free_new; @@ -822,7 +821,7 @@ static struct mddev *mddev_find_or_alloc(dev_t unit) out_free_new: spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock); kfree(new); - return mddev; + return ERR_PTR(error); } static struct attribute_group md_redundancy_group; @@ -5661,29 +5660,29 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name) * writing to /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array. */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(disks_mutex); - struct mddev *mddev = mddev_find_or_alloc(dev); + struct mddev *mddev; struct gendisk *disk; int partitioned; int shift; int unit; - int error; + int error ; - if (!mddev) - return -ENODEV; - - partitioned = (MAJOR(mddev->unit) != MD_MAJOR); - shift = partitioned ? MdpMinorShift : 0; - unit = MINOR(mddev->unit) >> shift; - - /* wait for any previous instance of this device to be - * completely removed (mddev_delayed_delete). + /* + * Wait for any previous instance of this device to be completely + * removed (mddev_delayed_delete). */ flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq); mutex_lock(&disks_mutex); - error = -EEXIST; - if (mddev->gendisk) - goto abort; + mddev = mddev_alloc(dev); + if (IS_ERR(mddev)) { + mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); + return PTR_ERR(mddev); + } + + partitioned = (MAJOR(mddev->unit) != MD_MAJOR); + shift = partitioned ? MdpMinorShift : 0; + unit = MINOR(mddev->unit) >> shift; if (name && !dev) { /* Need to ensure that 'name' is not a duplicate. @@ -5695,6 +5694,7 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name) if (mddev2->gendisk && strcmp(mddev2->gendisk->disk_name, name) == 0) { spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock); + error = -EEXIST; goto abort; } spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock); -- 2.30.1