3.16.y review patch. Please let me know if anybody has objections. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- commit d32f6b57523b6e9b2e39e990e056f9882a6f099a From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:16:48 +0530 Subject: block: fix wrong error return in elevator_init() while compiling integer err was showing as a set but unused variable. elevator_init_fn can be either cfq_init_queue or deadline_init_queue or noop_init_queue. all three of these functions are returning -ENOMEM if they fail to allocate the queue. so we should actually be returning the error code rather than returning 0 always. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Backported to 3.16.y as is. Signed-off-by: Dinesh K B <dineshkumarb@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/elevator.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c index 24c28b6..afa3b03 100644 --- a/block/elevator.c +++ b/block/elevator.c @@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name) } err = e->ops.elevator_init_fn(q, e); - return 0; + if (err) + elevator_put(e); + return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_init); -- 2.7.4