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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] driver core: check notifier_call_chain return value
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 03:09:24PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> When being notified that a driver is about to be bind a listener
> could return NOTIFY_BAD.
> Check the return to be sure that the driver could be bind.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@st.com>
> ---
> drivers/base/dd.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> index de6fd092bf2f..9275f2c0fed2 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -304,9 +304,12 @@ static int driver_sysfs_add(struct device *dev)
> {
> int ret;
>
> - if (dev->bus)
> - blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
> - BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER, dev);
> + if (dev->bus) {
> + if (blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
> + BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER, dev) ==
> + NOTIFY_BAD)
> + return -EINVAL;

checkpatch does not complain about this?

And what is going to break when we enable this, as we have never checked
this before?

thanks,

greg k-h

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