[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] dlm: config: Fix ENOMEM failures in make_cluster()

[Andrew Price]

On 22/03/16 17:36, Andrew Price wrote:
> Commit 1ae1602de0 "configfs: switch ->default groups to a linked list"
> left the NULL gps pointer behind after removing the kcalloc() call which
> made it non-NULL. It also left the !gps check in place so make_cluster()
> now fails with ENOMEM. Remove the remaining uses of the gps variable to
> fix that.

Could this go through the linux-dlm tree as a fix for -rc2? The impact 
is that dlm_controld fails:

   dlm_controld[890]: 171 dlm_controld 4.0.4 started
   dlm_controld[890]: 171 /sys/kernel/config/dlm/cluster: mkdir failed: 12

so it's pretty important.

Cheers,
Andy

>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice at redhat.com>
> ---
>   fs/dlm/config.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/dlm/config.c b/fs/dlm/config.c
> index 5191121..1669f62 100644
> --- a/fs/dlm/config.c
> +++ b/fs/dlm/config.c
> @@ -343,13 +343,12 @@ static struct config_group *make_cluster(struct config_group *g,
>   	struct dlm_cluster *cl = NULL;
>   	struct dlm_spaces *sps = NULL;
>   	struct dlm_comms *cms = NULL;
> -	void *gps = NULL;
>
>   	cl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_cluster), GFP_NOFS);
>   	sps = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_spaces), GFP_NOFS);
>   	cms = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_comms), GFP_NOFS);
>
> -	if (!cl || !gps || !sps || !cms)
> +	if (!cl || !sps || !cms)
>   		goto fail;
>
>   	config_group_init_type_name(&cl->group, name, &cluster_type);
>