In order to make error handle more cleaner we call bdi_debug_register before set state to WB_registered, that we can avoid call bdi_unregister in release_bdi().
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweip...@didichuxing.com> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index e9d6a1ede12b..54396d53f471 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -893,10 +893,13 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args) if (IS_ERR(dev)) return PTR_ERR(dev); + if (bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev))) { + device_destroy(bdi_class, dev->devt); + return -ENOMEM; + } cgwb_bdi_register(bdi); bdi->dev = dev; - bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev)); set_bit(WB_registered, &bdi->wb.state); spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock); @@ -916,6 +919,8 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, ...) va_start(args, fmt); ret = bdi_register_va(bdi, fmt, args); va_end(args); + if (ret) + bdi_put(bdi); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register); -- 2.14.2