[PATCH] cavium: Return negative value when pci_alloc_irq_vectors() fails

Zheyu Ma zheyuma97 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 19:16:22 PDT 2021


During the process of driver probing, the probe function should return < 0
for failure, otherwise, the kernel will treat value > 0 as success.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
index 691e1475d55e..0fbecd093fa1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ static int nic_register_interrupts(struct nicpf *nic)
 		dev_err(&nic->pdev->dev,
 			"Request for #%d msix vectors failed, returned %d\n",
 			   nic->num_vec, ret);
-		return 1;
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	/* Register mailbox interrupt handler */
-- 
2.17.6




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