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From: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	 Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	 "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	 Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <demarchi@kernel.org>,
	 linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: fcoe: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:37:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251220-dev-module-init-eexists-linux-scsi-v1-2-5379db749d54@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251220-dev-module-init-eexists-linux-scsi-v1-0-5379db749d54@samsung.com>

From: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>

The -EEXIST error code is reserved by the module loading infrastructure
to indicate that a module is already loaded. When a module's init
function returns -EEXIST, userspace tools like kmod interpret this as
"module already loaded" and treat the operation as successful, returning
0 to the user even though the module initialization actually failed.

This follows the precedent set by commit 54416fd76770 ("netfilter:
conntrack: helper: Replace -EEXIST by -EBUSY") which fixed the same
issue in nf_conntrack_helper_register().

Affected modules:
  * bnx2fc fcoe

Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c
index 2f478426f16e..d0f9ff4893e3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ int fcoe_transport_attach(struct fcoe_transport *ft)
 	if (ft->attached) {
 		LIBFCOE_TRANSPORT_DBG("transport %s already attached\n",
 				       ft->name);
-		rc = -EEXIST;
+		rc = -EBUSY;
 		goto out_attach;
 	}
 

-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-20  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-20  3:37 [PATCH 0/2] scsi: target+fcoe: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY in module_init() paths Daniel Gomez
2025-12-20  3:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] target: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY Daniel Gomez
2025-12-20  3:37 ` Daniel Gomez [this message]
2025-12-20  4:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] scsi: target+fcoe: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY in module_init() paths James Bottomley
2025-12-21  3:30   ` Daniel Gomez
2025-12-21  4:02     ` James Bottomley
2025-12-21 10:00       ` Daniel Gomez

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