module: don't ignore sysfs_create_link() failures
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 8 Apr 2024 08:05:58 +0000 (10:05 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:42:08 +0000 (14:42 +0200)
commit85d2b0aa170351380be39fe4ff7973df1427fe76
treebec9095664f038b53037e6dc31df68d9cb56ab38
parent0bb322be5d389c00740d884351d4ba08fca938aa
module: don't ignore sysfs_create_link() failures

The sysfs_create_link() return code is marked as __must_check, but the
module_add_driver() function tries hard to not care, by assigning the
return code to a variable. When building with 'make W=1', gcc still
warns because this variable is only assigned but not used:

drivers/base/module.c: In function 'module_add_driver':
drivers/base/module.c:36:6: warning: variable 'no_warn' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Rework the code to properly unwind and return the error code to the
caller. My reading of the original code was that it tries to
not fail when the links already exist, so keep ignoring -EEXIST
errors.

Fixes: e17e0f51aeea ("Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/")
See-also: 4a7fb6363f2d ("add __must_check to device management code")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408080616.3911573-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/base.h
drivers/base/bus.c
drivers/base/module.c