Re: [PATCH] md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread

From: Song Liu
Date: Tue Mar 12 2019 - 13:22:20 EST


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:13 PM Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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> 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@xxxxxxx>

Applied to https://github.com/liu-song-6/linux/tree/for-5.1/md-post

@Guoqing, I added your Acked-by to the commit and also the raid5 fix.

Thanks,
Song

> > ---
> > 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