linux-kernel - Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH -next] drbd: fix error return code in drbd

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:58:15 +0200
From:	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
To:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH -next] drbd: fix error return code in
 drbd_init()

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:17:09PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> 
> Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
> case instead of 0, as returned elsewhere in this function.

We used to have an err = -ENOMEM; "just in case"...

How about this instead:

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index e98da67..dfe52d6 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -2739,8 +2739,6 @@ int __init drbd_init(void)
 	/*
 	 * allocate all necessary structs
 	 */
-	err = -ENOMEM;
-
 	init_waitqueue_head(&drbd_pp_wait);
 
 	drbd_proc = NULL; /* play safe for drbd_cleanup */
@@ -2750,6 +2748,7 @@ int __init drbd_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto fail;
 
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	drbd_proc = proc_create_data("drbd", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO , NULL, &drbd_proc_fops, NULL);
 	if (!drbd_proc)	{
 		printk(KERN_ERR "drbd: unable to register proc file\n");
@@ -2780,7 +2779,6 @@ int __init drbd_init(void)
 fail:
 	drbd_cleanup();
 	if (err == -ENOMEM)
-		/* currently always the case */
 		printk(KERN_ERR "drbd: ran out of memory\n");
 	else
 		printk(KERN_ERR "drbd: initialization failure\n");
--
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/