From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 022/251] cavium: Fix return values of the probe function
Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:54:24 +0100
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From: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit c69b2f46876825c726bd8a97c7fa852d8932bc32 ]

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 <zheyuma97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 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 98734a37b6f64..df1c4ba7e0c97 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ 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");
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ 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;
-- 
2.33.0