[ 18/40] md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

commit 58ebb34c49fcfcaa029e4b1c1453d92583900f9a upstream.

Create_stripe_zones returns an error slightly differently to
raid0_run and to raid0_takeover_*.

The error returned used by the second was wrong and an error would
result in mddev->private being set to NULL and sooner or later a
crash.

So never return NULL, return ERR_PTR(err), not NULL from
create_stripe_zones.

This bug has been present since 2.6.35 so the fix is suitable
for any kernel since then.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/md/raid0.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/raid0.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid0.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ abort:
 	kfree(conf->strip_zone);
 	kfree(conf->devlist);
 	kfree(conf);
-	*private_conf = NULL;
+	*private_conf = ERR_PTR(err);
 	return err;
 }
 


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