From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 27/63] Revert "libertas: add checks for the return value of sysfs_create_group"
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 10:45:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210524144620.2497249-27-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210524144620.2497249-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 46651077765c80a0d6f87f3469129a72e49ce91b ]
This reverts commit 434256833d8eb988cb7f3b8a41699e2fe48d9332.
Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.
Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.
The original commit was incorrect, the error needs to be propagated back
to the caller AND if the second group call fails, the first needs to be
removed. There are much better ways to solve this, the driver should
NOT be calling sysfs_create_group() on its own as it is racing userspace
and loosing.
Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-53-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
index f5b78257d551..c611e6668b21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
@@ -805,12 +805,7 @@ static void lbs_persist_config_init(struct net_device *dev)
{
int ret;
ret = sysfs_create_group(&(dev->dev.kobj), &boot_opts_group);
- if (ret)
- pr_err("failed to create boot_opts_group.\n");
-
ret = sysfs_create_group(&(dev->dev.kobj), &mesh_ie_group);
- if (ret)
- pr_err("failed to create mesh_ie_group.\n");
}
static void lbs_persist_config_remove(struct net_device *dev)
--
2.30.2
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 08/63] Revert "net: fujitsu: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 09/63] net: fujitsu: fix potential null-ptr-deref Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 10/63] Revert "net/smc: fix a NULL pointer dereference" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 11/63] net/smc: properly handle workqueue allocation failure Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 12/63] Revert "net: caif: replace BUG_ON with recovery code" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 13/63] net: caif: remove BUG_ON(dev == NULL) in caif_xmit Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 19/63] Revert "isdn: mISDNinfineon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 20/63] isdn: mISDNinfineon: check/cleanup ioremap failure correctly in setup_io Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 21/63] Revert "ath6kl: return error code in ath6kl_wmi_set_roam_lrssi_cmd()" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 22/63] ath6kl: return error code in ath6kl_wmi_set_roam_lrssi_cmd() Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 23/63] Revert "isdn: mISDN: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference of kzalloc" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 24/63] isdn: mISDN: correctly handle ph_info allocation failure in hfcsusb_ph_info Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 28/63] libertas: register sysfs groups properly Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 39/63] Revert "net: liquidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 40/63] net: liquidio: Add missing null pointer checks Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 41/63] Revert "brcmfmac: add a check for the status of usb_register" Sasha Levin
2021-05-24 14:45 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 42/63] brcmfmac: properly check for bus register errors Sasha Levin
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