Re: [PATCH 0/5] block: replace incorrect uses of GENHD_FL_UP

Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-11T05:22:29Z

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:42:20AM +0800, luomeng wrote:
> Hi:
> When the fuzz test injected memory allocation failed, I had this BUG_ON:
> kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/group.c:116.
> The cause of the bug_ON is that the add_disk memory fails to be allocated
> but no error processing is performed.
> I find your patches add error processing. So what is your next step with
> these patches.

I have one more pending series on top of this one I need to submit here:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/alloc_disk

to make sure the disk always has a valid queue reference. After that
Luis work to return an error from add_disk should be much easier bause
we not have defined state.