Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ublk_drv: fix error handling of ublk_add_dev

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On 2022/7/22 16:45, Ming Lei wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> __ublk_destroy_dev() is called for handling error in ublk_add_dev(),
> but either tagset isn't allocated or mutex isn't initialized.
> 
> So fix the issue by letting replacing ublk_add_dev with a
> ublk_add_tag_set function that is much more limited in scope and
> instead unwind every single step directly in ublk_ctrl_add_dev.
> To allow for this refactor the device freeing so that there is
> a helper for freeing the device number instead of coupling that
> with freeing the mutex and the memory.
> 
> Note that this now copies the dev_info to userspace before adding
> the character device.  This not only simplifies the erro handling
> in ublk_ctrl_add_dev, but also means that the character device
> can only be seen by userspace if the device addition succeeded.
> 
> Based on a patch from Ming Lei.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Reviewed-by: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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