Message ID | 20210117085023.24352-1-dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn (mailing list archive) |
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State | New, archived |
Headers | show |
Series | block: Fix an error handling in add_partition | expand |
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 04:50:17PM +0800, Dinghao Liu wrote: > Once we have called device_initialize(), we should use put_device() to > give up the reference on error, just like what we have done on failure > of device_add(). > > Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
On 1/17/21 1:50 AM, Dinghao Liu wrote: > Once we have called device_initialize(), we should use put_device() to > give up the reference on error, just like what we have done on failure > of device_add(). Applied for 5.11, thanks.
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c index e7d776db803b..23460cee9de5 100644 --- a/block/partitions/core.c +++ b/block/partitions/core.c @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static struct block_device *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno, err = blk_alloc_devt(bdev, &devt); if (err) - goto out_bdput; + goto out_put; pdev->devt = devt; /* delay uevent until 'holders' subdir is created */
Once we have called device_initialize(), we should use put_device() to give up the reference on error, just like what we have done on failure of device_add(). Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn> --- Changelog: v2: - Refine commit message. --- block/partitions/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)