Re: [PATCH] sd: bad return code of init_sd

[Ewan Milne]

On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 23:34 +0200, ClÃment Calmels wrote:
> In init_sd function, if kmem_cache_create or mempool_create_slab_pools
> calls fail, the error will not be correclty reported because
> class_register previously set the value of err to 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: ClÃment Calmels <clement.calmels@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> index e9689d5..7daa2aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> @@ -3205,12 +3205,14 @@ static int __init init_sd(void)
>  					 0, 0, NULL);
>  	if (!sd_cdb_cache) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "sd: can't init extended cdb cache\n");
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_out_class;
>  	}
>  
>  	sd_cdb_pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(SD_MEMPOOL_SIZE, sd_cdb_cache);
>  	if (!sd_cdb_pool) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "sd: can't init extended cdb pool\n");
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_out_cache;
>  	}
>  

I posted this same patch on 2/14/2013.  Thanks for reminding me!

Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx>


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