From: Milan Broz Fix exception store name handling. We need to reference exception store by zero terminated string. Fixes regression introduced in commit f6bd4eb73cdf2a5bf954e497972842f39cabb7e3 Cc: Yi Yang Cc: Jonathan Brassow Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31-rc1.orig/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c +++ linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int dm_exception_store_create(struct dm_ struct dm_exception_store **store) { int r = 0; - struct dm_exception_store_type *type; + struct dm_exception_store_type *type = NULL; struct dm_exception_store *tmp_store; char persistent; @@ -211,12 +211,15 @@ int dm_exception_store_create(struct dm_ } persistent = toupper(*argv[1]); - if (persistent != 'P' && persistent != 'N') { + if (persistent == 'P') + type = get_type("P"); + else if (persistent == 'N') + type = get_type("N"); + else { ti->error = "Persistent flag is not P or N"; return -EINVAL; } - type = get_type(&persistent); if (!type) { ti->error = "Exception store type not recognised"; r = -EINVAL;