On Saturday 02 August 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> rfkill is not a small, mere detail in wireless support. Once it starts
> supporting rfkill and users start counting on that support, a wireless
> device is at risk of operating in dangerous conditions should rfkill
> support fail to properly activate.
>
> Therefore, add the required __must_check annotations on some key functions
> of the rfkill API, for which the wireless drivers absolutely MUST handle
> the failure mode safely in order to avoid a potentially dangerous situation
> where the wireless transmitter is left enabled when the user don't want it
> to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/rfkill.h | 5 +++--
> net/rfkill/rfkill.c | 5 +++--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rfkill.h b/include/linux/rfkill.h
> index aa3c7d5..e92d8e9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rfkill.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rfkill.h
> @@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ struct rfkill {
> };
> #define to_rfkill(d) container_of(d, struct rfkill, dev)
>
> -struct rfkill *rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent, enum rfkill_type type);
> +struct rfkill * __must_check rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent,
> + enum rfkill_type type);
> void rfkill_free(struct rfkill *rfkill);
> -int rfkill_register(struct rfkill *rfkill);
> +int __must_check rfkill_register(struct rfkill *rfkill);
> void rfkill_unregister(struct rfkill *rfkill);
>
> int rfkill_force_state(struct rfkill *rfkill, enum rfkill_state state);
> diff --git a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> index c1901fb..5320210 100644
> --- a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> +++ b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> @@ -653,7 +653,8 @@ static void rfkill_remove_switch(struct rfkill *rfkill)
> * NOTE: If registration fails the structure shoudl be freed by calling
> * rfkill_free() otherwise rfkill_unregister() should be used.
> */
> -struct rfkill *rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent, enum rfkill_type type)
> +struct rfkill * __must_check rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent,
> + enum rfkill_type type)
> {
> struct rfkill *rfkill;
> struct device *dev;
> @@ -724,7 +725,7 @@ static void rfkill_led_trigger_unregister(struct rfkill *rfkill)
> * structure needs to be registered. Immediately from registration the
> * switch driver should be able to service calls to toggle_radio.
> */
> -int rfkill_register(struct rfkill *rfkill)
> +int __must_check rfkill_register(struct rfkill *rfkill)
> {
> static atomic_t rfkill_no = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> struct device *dev = &rfkill->dev;
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