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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:43:11 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 04:31:23AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 15:16 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > On do_floppy_init, if something failed inside the loop we call add_disk,
> > there was no cleanup of previous iterations in the error handling.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
> 
> This depends on 3/6.  If that's replaced by my proposed fix, then:
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/block/floppy.c |   10 +++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> > index 9272203..3eafe93 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> > @@ -4294,7 +4294,7 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
> >  
> >  		err = platform_device_register(&floppy_device[drive]);
> >  		if (err)
> > -			goto out_release_dma;
> > +			goto out_remove_drives;
> >  
> >  		err = device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,
> >  					 &dev_attr_cmos);
> > @@ -4313,6 +4313,14 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
> >  
> >  out_unreg_platform_dev:
> >  	platform_device_unregister(&floppy_device[drive]);
> > +out_remove_drives:
> > +	while (drive--) {
> > +		if (disk_registered[drive]) {
> 
> I think the test of allowed_drive_mask and FDC version before
> registering each driver should be factored out into a function that you
> can use here.  There would then no need for the disk_registered array.

Seems a better approach. I'll redo the patches, but I'm not sure how to
proceed now, since it depends on your change. Patches 4-6 that I did
needs to be dropped/redone. At first my patches 0001/0002 could be
applied with yours, then I would submit another series for the rest. Or
I could take your change and submit your patch along with my series.

> 
> Ben.
> 

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Herton
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