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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 27/12/24 02:11, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 12/26/24 12:36, Nihar Chaithanya wrote: >> The function gpib_register_driver() can fail if kmalloc() fails, >> but it doesn't return any error if that happens. >> >> Modify the function to return error i.e int. Return the appropriate >> error code if it fails. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nihar Chaithanya >> --- >>   drivers/staging/gpib/common/gpib_os.c | 7 ++++--- >>   drivers/staging/gpib/include/gpibP.h  | 2 +- >>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gpib/common/gpib_os.c >> b/drivers/staging/gpib/common/gpib_os.c >> index 405237d8cb47..07795df3b721 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/gpib/common/gpib_os.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/gpib/common/gpib_os.c >> @@ -2094,18 +2094,19 @@ void init_gpib_descriptor(gpib_descriptor_t >> *desc) >>       atomic_set(&desc->io_in_progress, 0); >>   } >>   -void gpib_register_driver(gpib_interface_t *interface, struct >> module *provider_module) >> +int gpib_register_driver(gpib_interface_t *interface, struct module >> *provider_module) >>   { >>       struct gpib_interface_list_struct *entry; >>         entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL); >>       if (!entry) >> -        return; >> +        return -ENOMEM; >>         entry->interface = interface; >>       entry->module = provider_module; >>       list_add(&entry->list, ®istered_drivers); >> -    pr_info("gpib: registered %s interface\n", interface->name); > > Did you mean to delete this message? - looks like an useful message. > Could you make this dev_info() instead? > Greg had informed that gpib_register_driver() should not be calling pr_info(), I'll add the dev_* debug statements instead of the pr_* statements wherever the driver registration is completed or fails in this patch series and send the next version. >> + >> +    return 0; >>   } >>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(gpib_register_driver); >>   diff --git a/drivers/staging/gpib/include/gpibP.h >> b/drivers/staging/gpib/include/gpibP.h >> index 5fc42b645ab7..d0cd42c1a0ad 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/gpib/include/gpibP.h >> +++ b/drivers/staging/gpib/include/gpibP.h >> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ >>   #include >>   #include >>   -void gpib_register_driver(gpib_interface_t *interface, struct >> module *mod); >> +int gpib_register_driver(gpib_interface_t *interface, struct module >> *mod); >>   void gpib_unregister_driver(gpib_interface_t *interface); >>   struct pci_dev *gpib_pci_get_device(const gpib_board_config_t >> *config, unsigned int vendor_id, >>                       unsigned int device_id, struct pci_dev *from); > > thanks, > -- Shuah Thanks, Nihar