[PATCH 1/2] floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was never called

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Jan 30 2012 - 10:00:11 EST


add_disk() takes gendisk reference on request queue. If driver failed during
initialization and never called add_disk() then that extra reference is not
taken. That reference is put in put_disk(). floppy driver allocates the
disk, allocates queue, sets disk->queue and then relizes that floppy
controller is not present. It tries to tear down everything and tries to
put a reference down in put_disk() which was never taken.

In such error cases cleanup disk->queue before calling put_disk() so that
we never try to put down a reference which was never taken in first place.

Reported-and-tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/floppy.c | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index 510fb10..401ba78 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -4368,8 +4368,14 @@ out_unreg_blkdev:
out_put_disk:
while (dr--) {
del_timer_sync(&motor_off_timer[dr]);
- if (disks[dr]->queue)
+ if (disks[dr]->queue) {
blk_cleanup_queue(disks[dr]->queue);
+ /*
+ * put_disk() is not paired with add_disk() and
+ * will put queue reference one extra time. fix it.
+ */
+ disks[dr]->queue = NULL;
+ }
put_disk(disks[dr]);
}
return err;
--
1.7.4.4

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