linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] md: Fix failed allocation of md_register

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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:12:40 +0800
From:   Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread



On 3/5/19 6:48 AM, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> mddev->sync_thread can be set to NULL on kzalloc failure downstream.
> The patch checks for such a scenario and frees allocated resources.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
> ---
>   drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> index abb5d382f64d..f52b4d9bcd24 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> @@ -3939,6 +3939,8 @@ static int raid10_run(struct mddev *mddev)
>   		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery);
>   		mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev,
>   							"reshape");
> +		if (!mddev->sync_thread)
> +			goto out_free_conf;
>   	}
>   
>   	return 0;

Could you make the change for raid5 as well? It also doesn't check the 
failure
in raid5_run.

Thanks,
Guoqing