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blkcg: fix error return path in blkg_create()

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In blkg_create(), after lookup of parent fails, the control jumps to
error path with the error code encoded into @blkg.  The error path
doesn't use @blkg for the return value.  It returns ERR_PTR(ret).
Make lookup fail path set @ret instead of @blkg.

Note that the parent lookup is guaranteed to succeed at that point and
the condition check is purely for sanity and triggers WARN when fails.
As such, I don't think it's necessary to mark it for -stable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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Tejun Heo 2013-05-14 13:52:30 -07:00
parent f722406faa
commit 2423c9c3f0
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block/blk-cgroup.c
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@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
if (blkcg_parent(blkcg)) {
blkg->parent = __blkg_lookup(blkcg_parent(blkcg), q, false);
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!blkg->parent)) {
blkg = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
ret = -EINVAL;
goto err_put_css;
}
blkg_get(blkg->parent);