4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: NeilBrown <[email protected]> commit 9a8c0fa861e4db60409b4dda254cef5e17e4d43c upstream. This error path retuns while still holding the lock - bad. Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/md.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4005,8 +4005,10 @@ new_dev_store(struct mddev *mddev, const else rdev = md_import_device(dev, -1, -1); - if (IS_ERR(rdev)) + if (IS_ERR(rdev)) { + mddev_unlock(mddev); return PTR_ERR(rdev); + } err = bind_rdev_to_array(rdev, mddev); out: if (err) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

