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Message-ID: <2375c9f90703301930k4963168u4ba4dbc4c43ce2ee@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:30:31 +0800
From:	"Cong WANG" <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: [-mm3 patch]Warning fix: check the return value of kobject_add etc.

Since kobject_add, sysfs_create_link and sysfs_create_file are marked
as '__must_check', so we must always check their return values, or gcc
will give us warnings.

Signed-off-by: Cong WANG <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

---
--- fs/partitions/check.c.orig	2007-03-30 21:35:45.000000000 +0800
+++ fs/partitions/check.c	2007-03-30 21:49:53.000000000 +0800
@@ -385,10 +385,16 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
 	p->kobj.parent = &disk->kobj;
 	p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_part;
 	kobject_init(&p->kobj);
-	kobject_add(&p->kobj);
+	if (kobject_add(&p->kobj)) {
+		kfree(p);
+		return;
+	}
 	if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress)
 		kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
-	sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kset.kobj, "subsystem");
+	if (sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kset.kobj, "subsystem")) {
+		kfree(p);
+		return;
+	}
 	if (flags & ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK) {
 		static struct attribute addpartattr = {
 			.name = "whole_disk",
@@ -396,7 +402,10 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
 			.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 		};

-		sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
+		if (sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr)) {
+			kfree(p);
+			return;
+		}
 	}
 	partition_sysfs_add_subdir(p);
 	disk->part[part-1] = p;
-
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