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Patch "md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path." has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
md-unlock-mddev_lock-on-an-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 9a8c0fa861e4db60409b4dda254cef5e17e4d43c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:06:40 +1000
Subject: md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.

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.")
---
 drivers/md/md.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/md/md.c +3 -1
@@ -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)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/md-clear-mddev-private-when-it-has-been-freed.patch queue-4.1/md-fix-a-build-warning.patch queue-4.1/md-unlock-mddev_lock-on-an-error-path.patch