From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Joe Thornber , Mike Snitzer Subject: [PATCH 3.14 22/33] dm cache: fix missing ERR_PTR returns and handling Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:14:45 -0800 Message-Id: <20150203231239.109778908@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150203231235.843316867@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150203231235.843316867@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Joe Thornber commit 766a78882ddf79b162243649d7dfdbac1fb6fb88 upstream. Commit 9b1cc9f251 ("dm cache: share cache-metadata object across inactive and active DM tables") mistakenly ignored the use of ERR_PTR returns. Restore missing IS_ERR checks and ERR_PTR returns where appropriate. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static struct dm_cache_metadata *metadat cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_KERNEL); if (!cmd) { DMERR("could not allocate metadata struct"); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } atomic_set(&cmd->ref_count, 1); @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ static struct dm_cache_metadata *lookup_ return cmd; cmd = metadata_open(bdev, data_block_size, may_format_device, policy_hint_size); - if (cmd) { + if (!IS_ERR(cmd)) { mutex_lock(&table_lock); cmd2 = lookup(bdev); if (cmd2) { @@ -780,9 +780,10 @@ struct dm_cache_metadata *dm_cache_metad { struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd = lookup_or_open(bdev, data_block_size, may_format_device, policy_hint_size); - if (cmd && !same_params(cmd, data_block_size)) { + + if (!IS_ERR(cmd) && !same_params(cmd, data_block_size)) { dm_cache_metadata_close(cmd); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } return cmd;