+ module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed.patch added to -mm tree

+ module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

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@gmail.com>

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>
---


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 */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@gmail.com are

module-return-error-when-mod_sysfs_init-failed.patch
cpu-hotplug-slab-cleanup-cpuup_callback.patch
cpu-hotplug-slab-fix-memory-leak-in-cpu-hotplug-error-path.patch
cpu-hotplug-cpu-deliver-cpu_up_canceled-only-to-notify_oked-callbacks-with-cpu_up_prepare.patch
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