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If device_add() fails, cleanup the cdev. Otherwise, we leak a kobj_map()
with a stale device number.
As Jason points out, there is a small possibility that userspace has
opened and mapped the device in the time between cdev_add() and the
device_add() failure. We need a new kill_dax_dev() helper to invalidate
any established mappings.
Fixes: ba09c01d2f ("dax: convert to the cdev api")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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