From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>

idr_pre_get() can sleep while allocating memory.

The next patch will change _minor_lock into a spinlock, so this patch moves
idr_pre_get() outside the lock in preparation.

[akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/md/dm.c |   23 +++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/md/dm.c~dm-move-idr_pre_get drivers/md/dm.c
--- devel/drivers/md/dm.c~dm-move-idr_pre_get	2006-05-25 15:15:24.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/md/dm.c	2006-05-25 15:15:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -766,6 +766,10 @@ static int specific_minor(struct mapped_
 	if (minor >= (1 << MINORBITS))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	r = idr_pre_get(&_minor_idr, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!r)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	mutex_lock(&_minor_lock);
 
 	if (idr_find(&_minor_idr, minor)) {
@@ -773,16 +777,9 @@ static int specific_minor(struct mapped_
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	r = idr_pre_get(&_minor_idr, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!r) {
-		r = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	r = idr_get_new_above(&_minor_idr, MINOR_ALLOCED, minor, &m);
-	if (r) {
+	if (r)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
 	if (m != minor) {
 		idr_remove(&_minor_idr, m);
@@ -800,13 +797,11 @@ static int next_free_minor(struct mapped
 	int r;
 	unsigned int m;
 
-	mutex_lock(&_minor_lock);
-
 	r = idr_pre_get(&_minor_idr, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!r) {
-		r = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (!r)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	mutex_lock(&_minor_lock);
 
 	r = idr_get_new(&_minor_idr, MINOR_ALLOCED, &m);
 	if (r) {
_