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[v1,3/5] md: fail if mddev->bio_set can't be created

Message ID 1486724177-14817-4-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Ming Lei Feb. 10, 2017, 10:56 a.m. UTC
The current behaviour is to fall back to allocate
bio from 'fs_bio_set', that isn't a correct way
because it might cause deadlock.

So this patch simply return failure if mddev->bio_set
can't be created.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/md/md.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Feb. 13, 2017, 1:45 p.m. UTC | #1
Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

but this really needs to be patch 2 in this series.
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diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 4c1b82defa78..3425c2b779a6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5270,8 +5270,11 @@  int md_run(struct mddev *mddev)
 		sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(rdev->sysfs_state);
 	}
 
-	if (mddev->bio_set == NULL)
+	if (mddev->bio_set == NULL) {
 		mddev->bio_set = bioset_create(BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0);
+		if (!mddev->bio_set)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&pers_lock);
 	pers = find_pers(mddev->level, mddev->clevel);