linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] blk-mq: cleanup after blk_mq_init_rq

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:45:18 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Robert Elliott <elliott@...com>
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, abhijit.mahajan@...gotech.com, kmo@...arainc.com,
	nagalakshmi.nandigama@...gotech.com, asamymuthupa@...ron.com,
	snitzer@...hat.com, JBottomley@...allels.com,
	relliott@...rdog.cce.hp.com, sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com,
	praveen.krishnamoorthy@...gotech.com, agordeev@...hat.com,
	scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com, tom.leiming@...il.com,
	sbradshaw@...ron.com, hch@....de, m@...rling.me,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] blk-mq: cleanup after blk_mq_init_rq_map failures

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Robert Elliott wrote:
> In blk-mq.c blk_mq_alloc_tag_set, if:
> 	set->tags = kmalloc_node()
> succeeds, but one of the blk_mq_init_rq_map() calls fails,
> 	goto out_unwind;
> needs to free set->tags so the caller is not obligated
> to do so.  None of the current callers (null_blk,
> virtio_blk, virtio_blk, or the forthcoming scsi-mq)
> do so.
> 
> set->tags needs to be set to NULL after doing so,
> so other tag cleanup logic doesn't try to free
> a stale pointer later.  Also set it to NULL
> in blk_mq_free_tag_set.
> 
> Tested with error injection on the forthcoming
> scsi-mq + hpsa combination.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@...com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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