[PATCH 4.19 026/323] cavium: Return negative value when pci_alloc_irq_vectors() fails

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 07:52:57 EST


From: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit b2cddb44bddc1a9c5949a978bb454bba863264db ]

During the process of driver probing, the probe function should return < 0
for failure, otherwise, the kernel will treat value > 0 as success.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
index 90497a27df184..7c0a67f1f43f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static int nic_register_interrupts(struct nicpf *nic)
dev_err(&nic->pdev->dev,
"Request for #%d msix vectors failed, returned %d\n",
nic->num_vec, ret);
- return 1;
+ return ret;
}

/* Register mailbox interrupt handler */
--
2.33.0