linux-kernel - [PATCH] btrfs: add a check for sysfs_create

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Date:   Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:46:06 -0600
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: add a check for sysfs_create_group

In case sysfs_create_group fails, let's check its return value and
issues an error message.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
index 3717c864ba23..62529153a51a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
@@ -889,6 +889,8 @@ void btrfs_sysfs_feature_update(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 	 */
 	sysfs_remove_group(fsid_kobj, &btrfs_feature_attr_group);
 	ret = sysfs_create_group(fsid_kobj, &btrfs_feature_attr_group);
+	if (ret)
+		pr_err("failed to create btrfs_feature_attr_group.\n");
 }
 
 static int btrfs_init_debugfs(void)
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)