From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d751939235b9b7bc4af15f90a3e99288a8b844a7 ] Make sure ->dax_dev is NULL on error so that the cleanup path doesn't trip over an ERR_PTR. Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129102203.2243509-2-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 662742a310cbb..acc84dc1bded5 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1786,8 +1786,10 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor) if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER)) { md->dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, md->disk->disk_name, &dm_dax_ops, 0); - if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev)) + if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev)) { + md->dax_dev = NULL; goto bad; + } } format_dev_t(md->name, MKDEV(_major, minor)); -- 2.34.1