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| author | Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> | 2007-10-16 23:30:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 08:43:01 -0700 |
| commit | d58ae67813ff97030d2f47ff7d1e5f54e5d7c5b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 41d8e470d578636a0e5aeaed2d1e959e0c1a99c7 /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | 22d2b35b200f76085c16a2e14ca30b58510fcbe7 (diff) | |
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module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
load_module() returns zero when mod_sysfs_init() fails, then the module
loading will succeed accidentally.
This patch makes load_module() return error correctly in that case.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index c24c3c35405a..a389b423c279 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1881,7 +1881,8 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, module_unload_init(mod); /* Initialize kobject, so we can reference it. */ - if (mod_sysfs_init(mod) != 0) + err = mod_sysfs_init(mod); + if (err) goto cleanup; /* Set up license info based on the info section */ |