On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:37:10AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2007/9/29, Greg KH <[email protected]>:
> > > Index: 2.6-git/kernel/module.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- 2.6-git.orig/kernel/module.c
> > > +++ 2.6-git/kernel/module.c
> > > @@ -1782,7 +1782,8 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _
> > > module_unload_init(mod);
> > >
> > > /* Initialize kobject, so we can reference it. */
> > > - if (mod_sysfs_init(mod) != 0)
> > > + err = mod_sysfs_init(mod);
> > > + if (err)
> > > goto cleanup;
> >
> > I must be still asleep this morning, but I think this patch does the
> > exact same thing as the original code does, right? Otherwise, this
> > code would always be failing.
> >
> > Or do I just need to go get my morning coffee to wake up and see the
> > problem here?
>
> Hello,
>
> In the original code, the "err" is zero before goto cleanup.
> This "err" will be the return value of load_module().
Ah, ok, that makes sense now, thanks. It was the error not getting
returned, it was not the fact that we were incorrectly checking the
return value of mod_sysfs_init.
thanks for clearing this up.
greg k-h
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