From: Mikulas Patocka Fix an error introduced in dm-table-rework-reference-counting.patch. When there is failure after table initialization, we need to use dm_table_destroy, not dm_table_put, to free the table. dm_table_put may be used only after dm_table_get. Cc: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow --- drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.28.orig/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2009-01-06 15:07:04.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2009-01-06 21:36:12.000000000 +0000 @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ static int table_load(struct dm_ioctl *p r = populate_table(t, param, param_size); if (r) { - dm_table_put(t); + dm_table_destroy(t); goto out; } @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static int table_load(struct dm_ioctl *p hc = dm_get_mdptr(md); if (!hc || hc->md != md) { DMWARN("device has been removed from the dev hash table."); - dm_table_put(t); + dm_table_destroy(t); up_write(&_hash_lock); r = -ENXIO; goto out;