Re: [PATCH] Fix error handling in add_disk

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:31:10 +0530
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> wrote:

> Fix error handling in add_disk. Also add WARN_ON()'s in case
> of error, which can be removed once the callers handle the error.
> 

I have a vague ancestral memory that some of the unchecked errors which
you're now checking for actually do happen in practice, and that this
"fix" will end up breaking currently-working setups.

Or maybe I'm thinking of a similar but different piece of code (maybe
it was the partition code?).

Still, I think it would be prudent to initially make this patch
continue to ignore the errors.  So add the warnings, but don't change
the response to errors.  Then we can get the change distributed for a
bit of testing and if that all looks good then we can add the control
flow changes later.

>  	retval = blk_alloc_devt(&disk->part0, &devt);
>  	if (retval) {
>  		WARN_ON(1);
> -		return;
> +		goto err_out;
>  	}
> ...
> +	if (retval) {
> +		WARN_ON(1);
> +		goto err_free_devt;
> +	}
> ...
> +	if (retval) {
> +		WARN_ON(1);
> +		goto err_free_region;
> +	}
> ...
> -	WARN_ON(retval);
> +	if (retval) {
> +		WARN_ON(1);
> +		goto err_free_queue;
> +	}

These all can be coded as

	if (WARN_ON(retval))
		goto foo;