From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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paulmck <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
"Joel Fernandes, Google" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] module: Fix up module_notifier return values.
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:58:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190624205810.GD26422@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <320564860.243.1561384864186.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
Hi -
> > While auditing all module notifiers I noticed a whole bunch of fail
> > wrt the return value. Notifiers have a 'special' return semantics.
From peterz's comments, the patches, it's not obvious to me how one is
to choose between 0 (NOTIFY_DONE) and 1 (NOTIFY_OK) in the case of a
routine success.
> [...]
> I have a similar erroneous module notifier return value pattern
> in lttng-modules as well. I'll go fix it right away. CCing
> Frank Eigler from SystemTAP which AFAIK use a copy of
> lttng-tracepoint.c in their project, which should be fixed
> as well. I'm pasting the lttng-modules fix below.
Sure, following suit. Thanks.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-24 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190624091843.859714294@infradead.org>
2019-06-24 9:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] module: Fix up module_notifier return values Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-24 14:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-06-24 15:52 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-06-24 17:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-06-24 20:58 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2019-06-25 7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-04 12:48 ` Robert Richter
2019-07-04 12:34 ` Robert Richter
2019-06-24 9:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] module: Properly propagate MODULE_STATE_COMING failure Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-24 11:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
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