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bcache: cleaned up error handling around register_cache()

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commit 9b299728ed upstream.

Fix null pointer dereference by changing register_cache() to return an int
instead of being void.  This allows it to return -ENOMEM or -ENODEV and
enables upper layers to handle the OOM case without NULL pointer issues.

See this thread:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/3521

Fixes this error:
  gargamel:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo /dev/sdh2 > /sys/fs/bcache/register

  bcache: register_cache() error opening sdh2: cannot allocate memory
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000009b8
  IP: [<ffffffffc05a7e8d>] cache_set_flush+0x102/0x15c [bcache]
  PGD 120dff067 PUD 1119a3067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: veth ip6table_filter ip6_tables
  (...)
  CPU: 4 PID: 3371 Comm: kworker/4:3 Not tainted 4.4.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20160213bc1 #3
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8H67-M PRO, BIOS 3904 04/27/2013
  Workqueue: events cache_set_flush [bcache]
  task: ffff88020d5dc280 ti: ffff88020b6f8000 task.ti: ffff88020b6f8000
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc05a7e8d>]  [<ffffffffc05a7e8d>] cache_set_flush+0x102/0x15c [bcache]

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Eric Wheeler 2016-02-26 14:33:56 -08:00 • committed by Ben Hutchings
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