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From: Dinesh K B <dineshkumarb@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dinesh K B <dineshkumarb@gmail.com>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Subject: [PATCH for stable branch 3.16.y] block: fix wrong error return in elevator_init()
Date: Sat,  6 May 2017 16:41:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494069116-3593-1-git-send-email-dineshkumarb@gmail.com> (raw)

3.16.y review patch. Please let me know if anybody has objections.

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commit d32f6b57523b6e9b2e39e990e056f9882a6f099a
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:16:48 +0530
Subject: block: fix wrong error return in elevator_init()

while compiling integer err was showing as a set but unused variable.
elevator_init_fn can be either cfq_init_queue or deadline_init_queue
or noop_init_queue.
all three of these functions are returning -ENOMEM if they fail to
allocate the queue.
so we should actually be returning the error code rather than
returning 0 always.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Backported to 3.16.y as is.
Signed-off-by: Dinesh K B <dineshkumarb@gmail.com>
---
 block/elevator.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 24c28b6..afa3b03 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
 	}
 
 	err = e->ops.elevator_init_fn(q, e);
-	return 0;
+	if (err)
+		elevator_put(e);
+	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_init);
 
-- 
2.7.4

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