From: Zdenek Kabelac Add missing del_gendisk() to error path when creation of workqueue fails. Otherwice there is a resource leak and following warning is shown: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487 sysfs_add_one+0xc5/0x160() sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/dm-0' Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6.32-rc3/drivers/md/dm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32-rc3.orig/drivers/md/dm.c +++ linux-2.6.32-rc3/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1819,6 +1819,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(i bad_bdev: destroy_workqueue(md->wq); bad_thread: + del_gendisk(md->disk); put_disk(md->disk); bad_disk: blk_cleanup_queue(md->queue);