[PATCH v3 2/5] nvmet: propagate percpu_ref_init() failure in nvmet_ns_enable()

Guixin Liu <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 10:18:58 +0800
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-nvme
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The return value of percpu_ref_init() is discarded. At this point ret is
0 from the preceding successful steps, so when the allocation inside
percpu_ref_init() fails the code jumps to the out_pr_exit cleanup chain
which ends with "return ret", i.e. reports success. The configfs enable
store then tells userspace the namespace was enabled even though it was
not and its backing device has already been torn down.

Capture the return value so the failure is propagated.

Fixes: 408232680707 ("nvmet: Fix crash when a namespace is disabled")
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index 4477c4d6b1ee..c8e01dda4121 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -610,7 +610,8 @@ int nvmet_ns_enable(struct nvmet_ns *ns)
 			goto out_dev_put;
 	}
 
-	if (percpu_ref_init(&ns->ref, nvmet_destroy_namespace, 0, GFP_KERNEL))
+	ret = percpu_ref_init(&ns->ref, nvmet_destroy_namespace, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (ret)
 		goto out_pr_exit;
 
 	nvmet_ns_changed(subsys, ns->nsid);
-- 
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