Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] blkcg: fix botched pd_prealloc error handling in blkcg_activate_policy()

[Jens Axboe]

On 10/15/19 9:48 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> While fixing ->pd_alloc_fn() bug, ab94b0382d81 ("blkcg: Fix
> ->pd_alloc_fn() being called with the wrong blkcg on policy
> activation") broke the pd_prealloc error handling.
> 
> * pd's were freed using kfree().  They should be freed with
>    ->pd_free_fn().
> 
> * pd_prealloc could be kfree()'d and then ->pd_free_fn()'d again.
> 
> * When GFP_KERNEL allocation fails, pinned_blkg wasn't put.
> 
> There are also a couple existing issues.
> 
> * Each pd is initialized as they get allocated.  If alloc fails, the
>    policy will get freed with pd's initialized on it.
> 
> * After the above partial failure, the partial pds are not freed.
> 
> This patch fixes all of the above issues.

I dropped the other one, do you mind sending a folded patch?

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Jens Axboe