From 144214537370b4f133a735446ebe86e90cfb2501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:46:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would fail. While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of oopsing. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- mm/backing-dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 0e8ca0347707..f13e067e1467 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = { static __init int bdi_class_init(void) { bdi_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "bdi"); + if (IS_ERR(bdi_class)) + return PTR_ERR(bdi_class); + bdi_class->dev_attrs = bdi_dev_attrs; bdi_debug_init(); return 0;