linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ftrace:fix check for return value of register_module

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Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 15:06:03 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	tom.leiming@...il.com
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace:fix check for return value of
	register_module_notifier

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 03:31:38PM +0800, tom.leiming@...il.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> 
> return zero should be correct, so fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 5b606f4..140699a 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -2826,7 +2826,7 @@ void __init ftrace_init(void)
>  				  __stop_mcount_loc);
>  
>  	ret = register_module_notifier(&ftrace_module_nb);
> -	if (!ret)
> +	if (ret)
>  		pr_warning("Failed to register trace ftrace module notifier\n");
>  
>  	return;


Indeed!

register_module_notifier returns blocking_notifier_chain_register():

 *
 *	Currently always returns zero.
 */
int blocking_notifier_chain_register(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh,
		struct notifier_block *n)

For now it will never return anything else than 0 but we can keep
the warning in case it changes one day, as you did.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

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