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Re: [PATCH] block: fix device_add_disk() kobject_create_and_add() error handling

From: Wu Bo <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-04 10:55:22
Also in: lkml

On 2021/11/4 0:40, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Commit 83cbce957446 ("block: add error handling for device_add_disk /
add_disk") added error handling to device_add_disk(), however the goto
label for the kobject_create_and_add() failure did not set the return
value correctly, and so we can end up in a situation where
kobject_create_and_add() fails but we report success.

Fixes: 83cbce957446 ("block: add error handling for device_add_disk / add_disk")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
---
  block/genhd.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index be4775c13760..b0b484116c3a 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -478,8 +478,10 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
  	if (!disk->part0->bd_holder_dir)in here also should be add ret = -ENOMEM; ?
  		goto out_del_integrity;
  	disk->slave_dir = kobject_create_and_add("slaves", &ddev->kobj);
-	if (!disk->slave_dir)
+	if (!disk->slave_dir) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
  		goto out_put_holder_dir;
+	}
  
  	ret = bd_register_pending_holders(disk);
  	if (ret < 0)
  
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