linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: fix up ext4 error handling

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Date:	Thu,  3 Feb 2011 00:55:40 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix up ext4 error handling

Make sure we the correct cleanup happens if we die while trying to
load the ext4 file system.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---

While I was looking over the patch "unregister features interface on
module unload", I noticed that we weren't correctly checking all of the
error returns in ext4_init_fs().

 fs/ext4/super.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 4898cb1..86b0548 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4810,13 +4810,17 @@ static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 		return err;
 	err = ext4_init_system_zone();
 	if (err)
-		goto out5;
+		goto out7;
 	ext4_kset = kset_create_and_add("ext4", NULL, fs_kobj);
 	if (!ext4_kset)
-		goto out4;
+		goto out6;
 	ext4_proc_root = proc_mkdir("fs/ext4", NULL);
+	if (!ext4_proc_root)
+		goto out5;
 
 	err = ext4_init_feat_adverts();
+	if (err)
+		goto out4;
 
 	err = ext4_init_mballoc();
 	if (err)
@@ -4847,11 +4851,13 @@ out2:
 	ext4_exit_mballoc();
 out3:
 	ext4_exit_feat_adverts();
+out4:
 	remove_proc_entry("fs/ext4", NULL);
+out5:
 	kset_unregister(ext4_kset);
-out4:
+out6:
 	ext4_exit_system_zone();
-out5:
+out7:
 	ext4_exit_pageio();
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.7.3.1

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