From 766a78882ddf79b162243649d7dfdbac1fb6fb88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:07:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] dm cache: fix missing ERR_PTR returns and handling 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c index 21b156242e42..c1c010498a21 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static struct dm_cache_metadata *metadata_open(struct block_device *bdev, 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_or_open(struct block_device *bdev, 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_metadata_open(struct block_device *bdev, { 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; -- 2.20.1