[patch] powerpc: sysfs fix compiler warning
Michael Buesch
mb at bu3sch.de
Sat Jun 23 19:46:54 EST 2007
On Friday 22 June 2007 19:48:53 Christian Krafft wrote:
> From: Christian Krafft <krafft at de.ibm.com>
>
> This patch fixes the following compiler warning:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c:385: warning: ignoring return value of
> `sysfs_create_group',
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft at de.ibm.com>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.22-rc5/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.22-rc5.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
> +++ linux-2.6.22-rc5/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
> @@ -380,16 +380,23 @@ int cpu_add_sysdev_attr_group(struct att
> {
> int cpu;
> struct sys_device *sysdev;
> + int error;
>
> mutex_lock(&cpu_mutex);
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> sysdev = get_cpu_sysdev(cpu);
> - sysfs_create_group(&sysdev->kobj, attrs);
> + error |= sysfs_create_group(&sysdev->kobj, attrs);
That is probably dangerous, if multiple sysfs_create_group fail
with different error codes. So it will wiggle the error codes
together.
> }
>
> + if(error)
{
> + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> + sysdev = get_cpu_sysdev(cpu);
> + sysfs_remove_group(&sysdev->kobj, attrs);
> + }
probably do something like
error = -ENOENT;
}
or some other error code here to fix it.
> +
> mutex_unlock(&cpu_mutex);
> - return 0;
> + return error;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_add_sysdev_attr_group);
>
>
>
--
Greetings Michael.
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