[PATCH] x86: kvm: propagate register_shrinker return code

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 11:29:09 EST


Patch "mm,vmscan: mark register_shrinker() as __must_check" is
queued for 4.16 in linux-mm and adds a warning about the unchecked
call to register_shrinker:

arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:5485:2: warning: ignoring return value of 'register_shrinker', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]

This changes the kvm_mmu_module_init() function to fail itself
when the call to register_shrinker fails.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 89da688784fa..765c8e9df5d9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -5465,30 +5465,34 @@ static void mmu_destroy_caches(void)

int kvm_mmu_module_init(void)
{
+ int ret = -ENOMEM;
+
kvm_mmu_clear_all_pte_masks();

pte_list_desc_cache = kmem_cache_create("pte_list_desc",
sizeof(struct pte_list_desc),
0, SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!pte_list_desc_cache)
- goto nomem;
+ goto out;

mmu_page_header_cache = kmem_cache_create("kvm_mmu_page_header",
sizeof(struct kvm_mmu_page),
0, SLAB_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!mmu_page_header_cache)
- goto nomem;
+ goto out;

if (percpu_counter_init(&kvm_total_used_mmu_pages, 0, GFP_KERNEL))
- goto nomem;
+ goto out;

- register_shrinker(&mmu_shrinker);
+ ret = register_shrinker(&mmu_shrinker);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;

return 0;

-nomem:
+out:
mmu_destroy_caches();
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return ret;
}

/*
--
2.9.0