This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
md-unlock-mddev_lock-on-an-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9a8c0fa861e4db60409b4dda254cef5e17e4d43c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:06:40 +1000
Subject: md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
commit 9a8c0fa861e4db60409b4dda254cef5e17e4d43c upstream.
This error path retuns while still holding the lock - bad.
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4005,8 +4005,10 @@ new_dev_store(struct mddev *mddev, const
else
rdev = md_import_device(dev, -1, -1);
- if (IS_ERR(rdev))
+ if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
+ mddev_unlock(mddev);
return PTR_ERR(rdev);
+ }
err = bind_rdev_to_array(rdev, mddev);
out:
if (err)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/md-clear-mddev-private-when-it-has-been-freed.patch
queue-4.1/md-fix-a-build-warning.patch
queue-4.1/md-unlock-mddev_lock-on-an-error-path.patch
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