On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 06:24:44PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> Commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.

Thanks, queuing for 3.5 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luis

> 
> When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
> loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
> will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left
> some garbage in the misc device list.
> 
> Test case:
> sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
> (failed due to invalid parameter)
> sudo modprobe loop
> (oops)
> 
> Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
> Cc: Guo Chao <[email protected]>
> Cc: M. Hindess <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] # 3.2 3.4 3.8
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/block/loop.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 6579f69..1b1b0c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -1844,11 +1844,15 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
>               max_part = (1UL << part_shift) - 1;
>       }
> 
> -     if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS)
> -             return -EINVAL;
> +     if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS) {
> +             err = -EINVAL;
> +             goto misc_out;
> +     }
> 
> -     if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
> -             return -EINVAL;
> +     if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift)) {
> +             err = -EINVAL;
> +             goto misc_out;
> +     }
> 
>       /*
>        * If max_loop is specified, create that many devices upfront.
> @@ -1866,8 +1870,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
>               range = 1UL << MINORBITS;
>       }
> 
> -     if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop"))
> -             return -EIO;
> +     if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop")) {
> +             err = -EIO;
> +             goto misc_out;
> +     }
> 
>       blk_register_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range,
>                                 THIS_MODULE, loop_probe, NULL, NULL);
> @@ -1880,6 +1886,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
> 
>       printk(KERN_INFO "loop: module loaded\n");
>       return 0;
> +
> +misc_out:
> +     misc_deregister(&loop_misc);
> +     return err;
>  }
> 
>  static int loop_exit_cb(int id, void *ptr, void *data)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Mahoney
> SUSE Labs
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