[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 4/7] cavium: Fix return values of the probe function

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon Oct 25 10:01:17 PDT 2021


From: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97 at gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit c69b2f46876825c726bd8a97c7fa852d8932bc32 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index 98734a37b6f6..df1c4ba7e0c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		netdev_err(nic->netdev,
 			   "Req for #%d msix vectors failed\n", nic->num_vec);
-		return 1;
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	sprintf(nic->irq_name[irq], "%s Mbox", "NICVF");
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
 	if (!nicvf_check_pf_ready(nic)) {
 		nicvf_disable_intr(nic, NICVF_INTR_MBOX, 0);
 		nicvf_unregister_interrupts(nic);
-		return 1;
+		return -EIO;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.33.0




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