Re: [PATCH] [v4] module: don't ignore sysfs_create_link() failures

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:00:06AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:05:58AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > 
> > 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/")
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Oh right, I should apply this, sorry about that, will go do that now...