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    bcache: cleaned up error handling around register_cache() · b82c6a96
    Eric Wheeler authored
    commit 9b299728 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: default avatarEric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
    Tested-by: default avatarMarc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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