[PATCH 01/13] block/brd: add error handling support for add_disk()

Luis Chamberlain mcgrof at kernel.org
Sat Oct 16 10:52:07 AEDT 2021


We never checked for errors on add_disk() as this function
returned void. Now that this is fixed, use the shiny new
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/block/brd.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index 530b31240203..6065f493876f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static int brd_alloc(int i)
 	struct brd_device *brd;
 	struct gendisk *disk;
 	char buf[DISK_NAME_LEN];
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	mutex_lock(&brd_devices_mutex);
 	list_for_each_entry(brd, &brd_devices, brd_list) {
@@ -422,16 +423,20 @@ static int brd_alloc(int i)
 	/* Tell the block layer that this is not a rotational device */
 	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, disk->queue);
 	blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, disk->queue);
-	add_disk(disk);
+	err = add_disk(disk);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_cleanup_disk;
 
 	return 0;
 
+out_cleanup_disk:
+	blk_cleanup_disk(disk);
 out_free_dev:
 	mutex_lock(&brd_devices_mutex);
 	list_del(&brd->brd_list);
 	mutex_unlock(&brd_devices_mutex);
 	kfree(brd);
-	return -ENOMEM;
+	return err;
 }
 
 static void brd_probe(dev_t dev)
-- 
2.30.2



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