md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:36:38 +0000 (15:36 +1100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:03:18 +0000 (15:03 +0000)
commitab94b06b25d7678af3dcbb20b46349822607e0ad
tree8836ed9bd97cb70d62160f468e5a747e7453e75d
parent84453f1a9d27a3a9be88269cc14ee9099856f268
md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.

commit 58ebb34c49fcfcaa029e4b1c1453d92583900f9a upstream.

Create_stripe_zones returns an error slightly differently to
raid0_run and to raid0_takeover_*.

The error returned used by the second was wrong and an error would
result in mddev->private being set to NULL and sooner or later a
crash.

So never return NULL, return ERR_PTR(err), not NULL from
create_stripe_zones.

This bug has been present since 2.6.35 so the fix is suitable
for any kernel since then.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/md/raid0.c