linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes

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Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:15:46 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...tin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:48:48 +0200,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:

> If sysfs_remove_group() would also work for non-created (-existent) groups
> then the patch below would work. Unfortunately that is not the case. So one
> would have to remember if sysfs_create_group() was done and succeeded before
> calling sysfs_remove_group()...
> There must be an easier way.

<snip>

> @@ -132,11 +135,15 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitda
>  
>  static int __cpuinit topology_sysfs_init(void)
>  {
> -	int i;
> -
> -	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> -		topology_cpu_callback(&topology_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE,
> -				(void *)(long)i);
> +	struct sys_device *sys_dev;
> +	int cpu;
> +	int rc;
> +
> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> +		sys_dev = get_cpu_sysdev(cpu);
> +		rc = topology_add_dev(sys_dev);
> +		if (rc)
> +			return rc;
>  	}
>  
>  	register_hotcpu_notifier(&topology_cpu_notifier);

Shouldn't the added attribute groups be removed again in the failure
case?

Also, it might be a bit overkill to fail the whole initialization
because of one "bad" cpu. (And the "bad" cpu wouldn't matter if we
could safely remove non-existent groups :)
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