linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 04/10] zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram

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Date:	Wed,  5 Jun 2013 00:06:02 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Cc:	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/10] zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram_init()

On error recovery path of zram_init(), it leaks the zram device object
causing the failure. So change create_device() to free allocated
resources on error path.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 847d207..88a53f4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static const struct block_device_operations zram_devops = {
 
 static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
 	init_rwsem(&zram->lock);
 	init_rwsem(&zram->init_lock);
@@ -605,7 +605,6 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
 	if (!zram->queue) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating disk queue for device %d\n",
 			device_id);
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -615,11 +614,9 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
 	 /* gendisk structure */
 	zram->disk = alloc_disk(1);
 	if (!zram->disk) {
-		blk_cleanup_queue(zram->queue);
 		pr_warn("Error allocating disk structure for device %d\n",
 			device_id);
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
+		goto out_free_queue;
 	}
 
 	zram->disk->major = zram_major;
@@ -648,11 +645,17 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
 				&zram_disk_attr_group);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		pr_warn("Error creating sysfs group");
-		goto out;
+		goto out_free_disk;
 	}
 
 	zram->init_done = 0;
+	return 0;
 
+out_free_disk:
+	del_gendisk(zram->disk);
+	put_disk(zram->disk);
+out_free_queue:
+	blk_cleanup_queue(zram->queue);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2

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