From: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] dm: deregister the misc device before removing /dev/mapper
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:10:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226171018.GD8369@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030226170537.GA8289@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
Fix problem with devfs when unloading the dm module.
dm-ioctl.c: deregister the misc device, and its associated symlink
*before* removing the /dev/mapper dir. [Alasdair Kergon]
--- diff/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2003-02-26 16:09:52.000000000 +0000
+++ source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2003-02-26 16:09:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -1123,17 +1123,17 @@
return 0;
failed:
+ devfs_remove(DM_DIR "/control");
+ if (misc_deregister(&_dm_misc) < 0)
+ DMERR("misc_deregister failed for control device");
dm_hash_exit();
- misc_deregister(&_dm_misc);
return r;
}
void dm_interface_exit(void)
{
- dm_hash_exit();
-
devfs_remove(DM_DIR "/control");
-
if (misc_deregister(&_dm_misc) < 0)
DMERR("misc_deregister failed for control device");
+ dm_hash_exit();
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-26 17:05 device-mapper patchset 2.5.63-dm-1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] dm: ioctl interface wasn't dropping a table reference Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 21:04 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 14:20 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 14:36 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 16:25 ` Roland Dreier
2003-02-27 16:34 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 22:05 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 17:10 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: bug in error path for unknown target type Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:38 ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 18:17 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 18:20 ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 17:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 2 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 18:14 ` Greg KH
2003-02-27 8:55 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 9:55 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 16:17 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:33 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 17:47 ` Greg KH
2003-02-27 9:34 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-27 10:01 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 12:55 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-26 17:13 ` [PATCH 8/8] dm: return correct error codes from dm_table_add_target() Joe Thornber
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