One device_add is called disk->ev will be freed by disk_release, so we should free it twice. Fix this by allocating disk->ev after device_add so that the extra local unwinding can be removed entirely. Based on an earlier patch from Tetsuo Handa. Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+28a66a9fbc621c939000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+28a66a9fbc621c939000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 83cbce9574462c6b ("block: add error handling for device_add_disk / add_disk") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 3c139a1b6f049..603db5d6f10c0 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -442,10 +442,6 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, disk->first_minor = ret; } - ret = disk_alloc_events(disk); - if (ret) - goto out_free_ext_minor; - /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */ dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); @@ -456,7 +452,12 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, ddev->devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor); ret = device_add(ddev); if (ret) - goto out_disk_release_events; + goto out_free_ext_minor; + + ret = disk_alloc_events(disk); + if (ret) + goto out_device_del; + if (!sysfs_deprecated) { ret = sysfs_create_link(block_depr, &ddev->kobj, kobject_name(&ddev->kobj)); @@ -538,8 +539,6 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(ddev)); out_device_del: device_del(ddev); -out_disk_release_events: - disk_release_events(disk); out_free_ext_minor: if (disk->major == BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR) blk_free_ext_minor(disk->first_minor); -- 2.30.2