Re: [PATCH 08/10] dm: add add_disk() error handling

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 02:26:23 EST


On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:29:28PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> - add_disk(md->disk);
> + r = add_disk(md->disk);
> + if (r)
> + goto out_cleanup_disk;
>
> r = dm_sysfs_init(md);
> - if (r) {
> - del_gendisk(md->disk);
> - return r;
> - }
> + if (r)
> + goto out_del_gendisk;
> md->type = type;
> return 0;
> +
> +out_cleanup_disk:
> + blk_cleanup_disk(md->disk);
> +out_del_gendisk:
> + del_gendisk(md->disk);
> + return r;

I think the add_disk should just return r. If you look at the
callers they eventualy end up in dm_table_destroy, which does
this cleanup.