---

yaml
---
r: 154711
b: refs/heads/master
c: 0909dc4
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  154709: f4ff9ba
  154707: de3b53a
  154703: 625eb32
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1ec22eb2b4a2e1a763106bce36b11c02eaa84e61
+refs/heads/master: 0909dc448c98ed5021c87ffdfc09fb473aa464ab

trunk/drivers/md/md.c

@@ -3846,11 +3846,9 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 	flush_scheduled_work();
 
 	mutex_lock(&disks_mutex);
-	if (mddev->gendisk) {
-		mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
-		mddev_put(mddev);
-		return -EEXIST;
-	}
+	error = -EEXIST;
+	if (mddev->gendisk)
+		goto abort;
 
 	if (name) {
 		/* Need to ensure that 'name' is not a duplicate.
@@ -3862,19 +3860,15 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 			if (mddev2->gendisk &&
 			    strcmp(mddev2->gendisk->disk_name, name) == 0) {
 				spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock);
-				mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
-				mddev_put(mddev);
-				return -EEXIST;
+				goto abort;
 			}
 		spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock);
 	}
 
+	error = -ENOMEM;
 	mddev->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!mddev->queue) {
-		mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
-		mddev_put(mddev);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	if (!mddev->queue)
+		goto abort;
 	mddev->queue->queuedata = mddev;
 
 	/* Can be unlocked because the queue is new: no concurrency */
@@ -3884,11 +3878,9 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 
 	disk = alloc_disk(1 << shift);
 	if (!disk) {
-		mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
 		blk_cleanup_queue(mddev->queue);
 		mddev->queue = NULL;
-		mddev_put(mddev);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto abort;
 	}
 	disk->major = MAJOR(mddev->unit);
 	disk->first_minor = unit << shift;
@@ -3910,16 +3902,22 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 	mddev->gendisk = disk;
 	error = kobject_init_and_add(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype,
 				     &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "%s", "md");
-	mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		/* This isn't possible, but as kobject_init_and_add is marked
+		 * __must_check, we must do something with the result
+		 */
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "md: cannot register %s/md - name in use\n",
 		       disk->disk_name);
-	else {
+		error = 0;
+	}
+ abort:
+	mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
+	if (!error) {
 		kobject_uevent(&mddev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 		mddev->sysfs_state = sysfs_get_dirent(mddev->kobj.sd, "array_state");
 	}
 	mddev_put(mddev);
-	return 0;
+	return error;
 }
 
 static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data)