Helen Koike
0f41fcf788
The dm_early_create() function (which deals with "dm-mod.create=" kernel
command line option) calls dm_hash_insert() who gets an extra reference
to the md object.
In case of failure, this reference wasn't being released, causing
dm_destroy() to hang, thus hanging the whole boot process.
Fix this by calling __hash_remove() in the error path.
Fixes: 6bbc923dfc ("dm: add support to directly boot to a mapped device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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