Re: [PATCH] block:Add proper error handling to the function, disk_add_events

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu May 14 2015 - 21:22:40 EST


On 05/14/2015 07:57 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
This adds the proper required error checking to the function,
disk_add_events for when there are no disk events by returning
the error code, -EBUSY. Further this also adds error checking
for when our call to the function, sysfs_create_files by making
this function's return now go into a newly declared variable,
ret and at the end of this function's body return it to indicate
whether this function is successful or not to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
---
block/genhd.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 0a536dc..3eb7ee9 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1803,15 +1803,19 @@ static void disk_alloc_events(struct gendisk *disk)
disk->ev = ev;
}

-static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
+static int disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
{
+ int ret = 0;
if (!disk->ev)
- return;
+ return -EBUSY;
+
+ ret = sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, disk_events_attrs)

- /* FIXME: error handling */
- if (sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, disk_events_attrs) < 0)
+ if (!ret) {
pr_warn("%s: failed to create sysfs files for events\n",
disk->disk_name);
+ return ret;
+ }

You didn't even test this, obviously.

--
Jens Axboe

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