Re: [PATCH 08/10] dm: add add_disk() error handling

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 08:35:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:55:14AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > I think the add_disk should just return r.  If you look at the
> > > callers they eventualy end up in dm_table_destroy, which does
> > > this cleanup.
> > 
> > I don't see it. What part of dm_table_destroy() does this?
> 
> Sorry, dm_destroy, not dm_table_destroy.  For dm_early_create it's
> trivial as that calls both dm_table_destroy and dm_destroy in the error
> path.  The normal table_load case is a separate ioctl, but if that
> fails userspace needs to call the DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD to cleanup
> the state - similar to any other failure.

I see, ok sure I'll document this on the commit log as its not so
obvious.

  Luis



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux