Re: [PATCH 6/7] dm-verity: correctly handle dm_bufio_client_create() failure

From: Sami Tolvanen
Date: Wed Dec 17 2025 - 13:01:41 EST


On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 03:06:13PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> If either of the calls to dm_bufio_client_create() in verity_fec_ctr()
> fails, then dm_bufio_client_destroy() is later called with an ERR_PTR()
> argument. That causes a crash. Fix this.
>
> Fixes: a739ff3f543a ("dm verity: add support for forward error correction")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sami