Check the return of mddev_find(), since it may fail due to out of memeory or out of usable minor number. The reason I chose -ENODEV instead of -ENOMEM or something else is md_alloc() function chose that ;) Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 477eb2e..0bd44e3 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -6371,6 +6371,9 @@ static int md_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode) struct mddev *mddev = mddev_find(bdev->bd_dev); int err; + if (!mddev) + return -ENODEV; + if (mddev->gendisk != bdev->bd_disk) { /* we are racing with mddev_put which is discarding this * bd_disk. -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html