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* [PATCH net] net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()
@ 2026-07-28  3:10 Minhong He
  2026-07-30  0:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Minhong He @ 2026-07-28  3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sridhar Samudrala, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, netdev
  Cc: linux-kernel

failover_init() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and always
returns success, which can leave the failover module loaded without its
netdev notifier registered.

Check the error and fail module initialization early.

Signed-off-by: Minhong He <heminhong@kylinos.cn>
---
 net/core/failover.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/failover.c b/net/core/failover.c
index e43c59cd6868..b28cc6f77204 100644
--- a/net/core/failover.c
+++ b/net/core/failover.c
@@ -302,7 +302,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(failover_unregister);
 static __init int
 failover_init(void)
 {
-	register_netdevice_notifier(&failover_notifier);
+	int err;
+
+	err = register_netdevice_notifier(&failover_notifier);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.25.1


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