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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Whine about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:42:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080204154215.GA26618@localhost.sw.ru> (raw)

One head-scratching session could be noticeably shorter with this patch...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
---

 kernel/module.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2171,6 +2171,12 @@ sys_init_module(void __user *umod,
 		wake_up(&module_wq);
 		return ret;
 	}
+	if (ret > 0) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: '%s'->init suspiciously returned %d\n"
+		       KERN_WARNING "%s: loading module anyway...\n",
+		       __func__, mod->name, ret,
+		       __func__);
+	}
 
 	/* Now it's a first class citizen! */
 	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);


             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 15:42 Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2008-02-04 21:15 ` [PATCH] Whine about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook Andrew Morton
2008-02-05  3:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-05  3:53   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05  6:08     ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-05  6:24       ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 22:48         ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-05 23:37           ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-06  6:55             ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-10 22:09               ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Dobriyan
2008-03-04  3:24                 ` Rusty Russell

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