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bcache: register_bcache(): call blkdev_put() when cache_alloc() fails

register_cache() is supposed to return an error string on error so that
register_bcache() will will blkdev_put and cleanup other user counters,
but it does not set 'char *err' when cache_alloc() fails (eg, due to
memory pressure) and thus register_bcache() performs no cleanup.

register_bcache() <----------\  <- no jump to err_close, no blkdev_put()
   |                         |
   +->register_cache()       |  <- fails to set char *err
         |                   |
         +->cache_alloc() ---/  <- returns error

This patch sets `char *err` for this failure case so that register_cache()
will cause register_bcache() to correctly jump to err_close and do
cleanup.  This was tested under OOM conditions that triggered the bug.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Eric Wheeler 9 years ago
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1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 7 2
      drivers/md/bcache/super.c

+ 7 - 2
drivers/md/bcache/super.c

@@ -1844,7 +1844,7 @@ static int register_cache(struct cache_sb *sb, struct page *sb_page,
 				struct block_device *bdev, struct cache *ca)
 {
 	char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
-	const char *err = NULL;
+	const char *err = NULL; /* must be set for any error case */
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	memcpy(&ca->sb, sb, sizeof(struct cache_sb));
@@ -1861,8 +1861,13 @@ static int register_cache(struct cache_sb *sb, struct page *sb_page,
 		ca->discard = CACHE_DISCARD(&ca->sb);
 
 	ret = cache_alloc(ca);
-	if (ret != 0)
+	if (ret != 0) {
+		if (ret == -ENOMEM)
+			err = "cache_alloc(): -ENOMEM";
+		else
+			err = "cache_alloc(): unknown error";
 		goto err;
+	}
 
 	if (kobject_add(&ca->kobj, &part_to_dev(bdev->bd_part)->kobj, "bcache")) {
 		err = "error calling kobject_add";