From: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.9 commit d16ff19e69ab57e08bf908faaacbceaf660249de category: bugfix bugzilla: 41672 CVE: NA ----------------------------------------------- Maybe __create_persistent_data_objects() caller will use PTR_ERR as a pointer, it will lead to some strange things. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c index 151aa95775be..af6d4f898e4c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c @@ -537,12 +537,16 @@ static int __create_persistent_data_objects(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd, CACHE_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS); if (IS_ERR(cmd->bm)) { DMERR("could not create block manager"); - return PTR_ERR(cmd->bm); + r = PTR_ERR(cmd->bm); + cmd->bm = NULL; + return r; } r = __open_or_format_metadata(cmd, may_format_device); - if (r) + if (r) { dm_block_manager_destroy(cmd->bm); + cmd->bm = NULL; + } return r; } -- 2.25.1