[PATCH 01/29] dm: fix alloc_dax error handling in alloc_dev

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Nov 29 21:21:35 AEDT 2021


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 at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 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));
-- 
2.30.2



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