linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 07:43:41 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tony@...eyournoodle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in
	drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:23 +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> 
> But they are often an indication that we messed up earlier (e. g. try
> to add something twice)...
>
> > mostly only compromise the user ABI, 
> 
> Which is bad enough in itself. Most people will want to avoid a
> crippled ABI.

You prefer a crippled ABI or a machine that doesn't boot with no console
at all to see what happened because the console driver refused to
initialize due to such a sysfs file conflict ?

Now, again, that's only part of what I'm talking about anyway.

What I'm saying is basically that rather than have a test & printk in
every bloody driver, we are better off having it once in the function
itself (bloat ?)

In addition, in most cases, failure of initializing the driver is -not-
the right solution, so the driver should probably just warn, which can
as well be done by ... having sysfs_create_file() itself do the warning.

> The first one is the one we really want to yell about, since we've
> messed up somewhere. The second one is not as likely, maybe we want to
> warn about it when we activate debug options?
> 
> Which of the current __must_check functions do you think should have
> the __must_check removed?

sysfs_create_file is a good candidate imho :-)

Ben.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/