From 0c35bd4723e4a39ba2da4c13a22cb97986ee10c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:51:18 +1100 Subject: md: fix problems with freeing private data after ->run failure. If ->run() fails, it can either free the data structures it allocated, or leave that task to ->free() which will be called on failures. However: md.c calls ->free() even if ->private_data is NULL, which causes problems in some personalities. raid0.c frees the data, but doesn't clear ->private_data, which will become a problem when we fix md.c So better fix both these issues at once. Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones Fixes: 5aa61f427e4979be733e4847b9199ff9cc48a47e URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94381 Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- drivers/md/md.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index cadf9cc02b25..717daad71fb1 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5080,7 +5080,8 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev) } if (err) { mddev_detach(mddev); - pers->free(mddev, mddev->private); + if (mddev->private) + pers->free(mddev, mddev->private); module_put(pers->owner); bitmap_destroy(mddev); return err; -- cgit v1.2.3