linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] nvdimm/blk: avoid calling del

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Message-ID: <YYHTejXKvsGoDlOa@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 2 Nov 2021 17:10:34 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
        vigneshr@...com, Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        "Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux NVDIMM <nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] nvdimm/blk: avoid calling del_gendisk() on early
 failures

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 05:13:48PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 4:53 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > If nd_integrity_init() fails we'd get del_gendisk() called,
> > but that's not correct as we should only call that if we're
> > done with device_add_disk(). Fix this by providing unwinding
> > prior to the devm call being registered and moving the devm
> > registration to the very end.
> >
> > This should fix calling del_gendisk() if nd_integrity_init()
> > fails. I only spotted this issue through code inspection. It
> > does not fix any real world bug.
> >
> 
> Just fyi, I'm preparing patches to delete this driver completely as it
> is unused by any shipping platform. I hope to get that removal into
> v5.16.

Curious if are you going to nuking it on v5.16? Otherwise it would stand
in the way of the last few patches to add __must_check for the final
add_disk() error handling changes.

  Luis