linux-kernel - [PATCH] zcache: initialize module properly when zcache=FOO is given

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:49:02 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@...nsuse.org>
Subject: [PATCH] zcache: initialize module properly when zcache=FOO is given

835f2f51 (staging: zcache: enable zcache to be built/loaded as a module)
introduced in 3.10-rc1 has introduced a bug for zcache=FOO module
parameter processing.

zcache_comp_init return code doesn't agree with crypto_has_comp which
uses 1 for the success unlike zcache_comp_init which uses 0. This
causes module loading failure even if the given algorithm is supported:
[    0.815330] zcache: compressor initialization failed

Reported-by: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@...nsuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
---
 drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index dcceed2..0fe530b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -1811,10 +1811,12 @@ static int zcache_comp_init(void)
 #else
 	if (*zcache_comp_name != '\0') {
 		ret = crypto_has_comp(zcache_comp_name, 0, 0);
-		if (!ret)
+		if (!ret) {
 			pr_info("zcache: %s not supported\n",
 					zcache_comp_name);
-		goto out;
+			goto out;
+		}
+		goto out_alloc;
 	}
 	if (!ret)
 		strcpy(zcache_comp_name, "lzo");
@@ -1827,6 +1829,7 @@ static int zcache_comp_init(void)
 	pr_info("zcache: using %s compressor\n", zcache_comp_name);
 
 	/* alloc percpu transforms */
+out_alloc:
 	ret = 0;
 	zcache_comp_pcpu_tfms = alloc_percpu(struct crypto_comp *);
 	if (!zcache_comp_pcpu_tfms)
-- 
1.8.3.1

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