Re: next/master build: 198 builds: 1 failed, 197 passed, 1 error, 148 warnings (next-20180110)

[Christian KÃnig]

Hi Arnd,

Am 10.01.2018 um 16:45 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > 14 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c:1186:2: warning: ignoring return value of 'register_shrinker', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
> > 14 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c:485:2: warning: ignoring return value of 'register_shrinker', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
> ttm and kvm are now the last user of register_shrinker that doesn't
> propagate the return code to its
> caller, all other callers got fixed in one way or another.
>
> I tried to fix this one too, but couldn't come up with a proper way of
> unwinding both
> kobject_init_and_add() and ttm_pool_mm_shrink_init():
>
>          ret = kobject_init_and_add(&_manager->kobj, &ttm_pool_kobj_type,
>                                     &glob->kobj, "pool");
>          if (unlikely(ret != 0)) {
>                  kobject_put(&_manager->kobj);
>                  _manager = NULL;
>                  return ret;
>          }
>
>          ttm_pool_mm_shrink_init(_manager);
>
> Calling kobject_put() after a failed kobject_init_and_add() seemed wrong,
> and it also appears to be missing a kfree(), so I didn't want to mess it
> up any further. Added a few people to Cc that touched this file most,
> maybe one of them can have a look, or they already have a patch waiting
> to get merged.

That isn't urgent, isn't it? So I would say I put it on my TODO list and 
I'm going to take care of it no later than 4.17.

Otherwise Roger or me could take a look tomorrow.

Regards,
Christian.