Commit d58ae678 authored Oct 16, 2007 by Akinobu Mita Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 17, 2007

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>

parent 22d2b35b

kernel/module.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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 */

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