On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 18:24 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream. > > When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter, > loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which > will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some > garbage in the misc device list. > > Test case: > sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024 > (failed due to invalid parameter) > sudo modprobe loop > (oops) > > Clean up nicely to avoid such oops. > > Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <y...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Guo Chao <y...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: M. Hindess <hinde...@uk.ibm.com> > Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knika...@suse.de> > Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2 3.4 3.8 > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> > Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <je...@suse.com> [...]
Queued up for 3.2, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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