disks_mutex is intended to serialize md_alloc. Extended it to also cover
the kobject_uevent call and getting the sysfs dirent to help reducing
error handling complexity.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 2971dae388ef2..b90dbf7cc2455 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5725,12 +5725,12 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
error = 0;
}
abort:
- mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
if (!error && mddev->kobj.sd) {
kobject_uevent(&mddev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
mddev->sysfs_state = sysfs_get_dirent_safe(mddev->kobj.sd, "array_state");
mddev->sysfs_level = sysfs_get_dirent_safe(mddev->kobj.sd, "level");
}
+ mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
mddev_put(mddev);
return error;
}
--
2.30.2
