Re: [PATCH net] net: bonding: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in bonding_init()

Minhong He <[email protected]> wrote:

>bonding_init() ignores register_netdevice_notifier() errors and still
>returns success, which can leave the bonding module loaded without its
>netdev notifier registered.
>
>Check the error and unwind prior initialization on failure.
>
>Signed-off-by: Minhong He <[email protected]>

	It appears that the matching unregister_netdevice_notifier call
in bonding_exit has the same issue, although there's probably not much
that could be done there other than printing a message.

	Regardless:

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>

	-J


>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index e1bec8164221..3405a20bd498 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -6637,7 +6637,9 @@ static int __init bonding_init(void)
> 				flow_keys_bonding_keys,
> 				ARRAY_SIZE(flow_keys_bonding_keys));
> 
>-	register_netdevice_notifier(&bond_netdev_notifier);
>+	res = register_netdevice_notifier(&bond_netdev_notifier);
>+	if (res)
>+		goto err;
> out:
> 	return res;
> err:
>-- 
>2.25.1

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	-Jay Vosburgh, [email protected]