modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:43:53 +0000 (11:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:01:20 +0000 (18:01 -0700)
commite24e2e64c468c8060bb7173abecdf11d00ed5751
treeb03faa2fd187a207d0a2e78af75a787a66ab21fe
parent6c5db22d280302c33dafb309c25bf2841fb99c37
modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook

Return value convention of module's init functions is 0/-E.  Sometimes,
e.g.  during forward-porting mistakes happen and buggy module created,
where result of comparison "workqueue != NULL" is propagated all the way up
to sys_init_module.  What happens is that some other module created
workqueue in question, our module created it again and module was
successfully loaded.

Or it could be some other bug.

Let's make such mistakes much more visible.  In retrospective, such
messages would noticeably shorten some of my head-scratching sessions.

Note, that dump_stack() is just a way to get attention from user.  Sample
message:

sys_init_module: 'foo'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention
sys_init_module: loading module anyway...
Pid: 4223, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.24-25f666300625d894ebe04bac2b4b3aadb907c861 #5

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80254b05>] sys_init_module+0xe5/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff8020b39b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/module.c