From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] block/genhd.c: Add error handling Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:33:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20151110033322.GB22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <437969438-9181-1-git-send-email-vishnu.ps@samsung.com> <1446812535-10567-1-git-send-email-vishnu.ps@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1446812535-10567-1-git-send-email-vishnu.ps@samsung.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Vishnu Pratap Singh Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmoyer@redhat.com, minchan@kernel.org, ngupta@vflare.org, sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, neilb@suse.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, tiwai@suse.de, hare@suse.de, ming.lei@canonical.com, jarod@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com, jonathanh@nvidia.com, grundler@chromium.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, cpgs@samsung.com, vishu13285@gmail.com, pintu.k@samsung.com, rohit.kr@samsung.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:52:08PM +0530, Vishnu Pratap Singh wrote: Have you even tried to trigger the failure exits you've added? The more you've successfully set up, the _less_ your cleanup code ends up undoing; that simply can't be right. That aside, as soon as we'd done register_disk(), the damn thing is available for open(), so bailing out is _really_ not something for faint-hearted - it's essentially equivalent to removal of device under somebody who'd opened it and might've started IO, etc. Going there simply because some sysfs shite didn't get created doesn't look sane as far as I'm concerned... Especially since these failure exits are not going to be tested on a regular basis, so the amount of bitrot will be pretty high ;-/