Revert "bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_register"
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:01:30 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:01:30 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
This reverts commit a0747a859ef6d3cc5b6cd50eb694499b78dd0025.

It breaks some booting for some users, and more than a week
into this, there's still no good fix. Revert this commit
for now until a solution has been found.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
mm/backing-dev.c

index 84b2dc76f140e922e2ed0d7c4d545b4d4ddf496d..b5f940ce0143ba061a183db0df3ef0dc17f57c72 100644 (file)
@@ -882,13 +882,10 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args)
        if (IS_ERR(dev))
                return PTR_ERR(dev);
 
-       if (bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev))) {
-               device_destroy(bdi_class, dev->devt);
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
        cgwb_bdi_register(bdi);
        bdi->dev = dev;
 
+       bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev));
        set_bit(WB_registered, &bdi->wb.state);
 
        spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);