2021-10-18 14:35:31

by Zheyu Ma

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Subject: [PATCH] cavium: Fix return values of the probe function

During the process of driver probing, the probe function should return < 0
for failure, otherwise, the kernel will treat value > 0 as success.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index d1667b759522..a27227aeae88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
if (ret < 0) {
netdev_err(nic->netdev,
"Req for #%d msix vectors failed\n", nic->num_vec);
- return 1;
+ return ret;
}

sprintf(nic->irq_name[irq], "%s Mbox", "NICVF");
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
if (!nicvf_check_pf_ready(nic)) {
nicvf_disable_intr(nic, NICVF_INTR_MBOX, 0);
nicvf_unregister_interrupts(nic);
- return 1;
+ return -EIO;
}

return 0;
--
2.17.6