linux-kernel - [PATCH] nvme: fix an error code in nvme_init

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:18:36 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: fix an error code in nvme_init_subsystem()

"ret" should be a negative error code here, but it's either success or
possibly uninitialized.

Fixes: 32fd90c40768 ("nvme: change locking for the per-subsystem controller list")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 63b37d08ac98..f6acbff3e3bc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -2540,8 +2540,9 @@ static int nvme_init_subsystem(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_id_ctrl *id)
 		list_add_tail(&subsys->entry, &nvme_subsystems);
 	}
 
-	if (sysfs_create_link(&subsys->dev.kobj, &ctrl->device->kobj,
-			dev_name(ctrl->device))) {
+	ret = sysfs_create_link(&subsys->dev.kobj, &ctrl->device->kobj,
+				dev_name(ctrl->device));
+	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(ctrl->device,
 			"failed to create sysfs link from subsystem.\n");
 		goto out_put_subsystem;
-- 
2.20.1