On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:26:40 +0800 Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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.
Hi,
thanks for the patch.
I'm fairly sure that we won't actually get to md_open unless md_probe has
succeeded and called add_disk, in which case there *must* be a matching
mddev.
However it doesn't hurt and looks safer so I have applied it.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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