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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:48:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814194835.GE5760@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344881787-6422-3-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:16:23PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> If blk_init_queue fails, we do not call put_disk on the current dr
> (dr is decremented first in the error handling loop).
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/floppy.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index c8d9e68..1e09e99 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -4151,6 +4151,7 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
>  
>  		disks[dr]->queue = blk_init_queue(do_fd_request, &floppy_lock);
>  		if (!disks[dr]->queue) {
> +			put_disk(disks[dr]);
>  			err = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto out_put_disk;
>  		}

I think it will create conflict with patch 6. Will it not call put_disk()
twice on disks[dr].

Why are we retaining this patch given the fact that we will loop through
all the drives and queues in out_put_disk.

Thanks
Vivek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 18:16 Bug fixes/cleanups for floppy driver (v2) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] floppy: don't call alloc_ordered_workqueue inside the alloc_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14  2:01   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14  2:04   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 19:48   ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-08-14 20:08     ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy_init error handling Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14  3:20   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14  9:03     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-08-14 14:26       ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 14:28       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 14:33     ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 20:00     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14  3:31   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 14:43     ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-27 23:53       ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] floppy: use disk_registered for checking if a drive is present Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14  3:36   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] floppy: remove dr, reuse drive on do_floppy_init Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:21 ` Bug fixes/cleanups for floppy driver (v2) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski

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