Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 15:16 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On do_floppy_init, if something failed inside the loop we call add_disk,
> there was no cleanup of previous iterations in the error handling.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This depends on 3/6.  If that's replaced by my proposed fix, then:

> ---
>  drivers/block/floppy.c |   10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 9272203..3eafe93 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -4294,7 +4294,7 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
>  
>  		err = platform_device_register(&floppy_device[drive]);
>  		if (err)
> -			goto out_release_dma;
> +			goto out_remove_drives;
>  
>  		err = device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,
>  					 &dev_attr_cmos);
> @@ -4313,6 +4313,14 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
>  
>  out_unreg_platform_dev:
>  	platform_device_unregister(&floppy_device[drive]);
> +out_remove_drives:
> +	while (drive--) {
> +		if (disk_registered[drive]) {

I think the test of allowed_drive_mask and FDC version before
registering each driver should be factored out into a function that you
can use here.  There would then no need for the disk_registered array.

Ben.

> +			del_gendisk(disks[drive]);
> +			device_remove_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev, &dev_attr_cmos);
> +			platform_device_unregister(&floppy_device[drive]);
> +		}
> +	}
>  out_release_dma:
>  	if (atomic_read(&usage_count))
>  		floppy_release_irq_and_dma();

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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