The patch titled
module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed.patch
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Subject: module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -puN kernel/module.c~module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed kernel/module.c
--- a/kernel/module.c~module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed
+++ a/kernel/module.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,8 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _
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 */
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are
module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed.patch
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cpu-hotplug-topology-remove-topology_dev_map.patch
cpu-hotplug-thermal_throttle-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch
cpu-hotplug-msr-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch
cpu-hotplug-mce-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch
cpu-hotplug-intel_cacheinfo-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch
cpu-hotplug-intel_cacheinfo-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling-fix-a-section-mismatch-warning.patch
do-cpu_dead-migrating-under-read_locktasklist-instead-of-write_lock_irqtasklist.patch
migration_callcpu_dead-use-spin_lock_irq-instead-of-task_rq_lock.patch
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