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cavium: Fix return values of the probe function

Message ID 1634567577-4033-1-git-send-email-zheyuma97@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series cavium: Fix return values of the probe function | expand

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Commit Message

Zheyu Ma Oct. 18, 2021, 2:32 p.m. UTC
During the process of driver probing, the probe function should return < 0
for failure, otherwise, the kernel will treat value > 0 as success.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index d1667b759522..a27227aeae88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@  static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		netdev_err(nic->netdev,
 			   "Req for #%d msix vectors failed\n", nic->num_vec);
-		return 1;
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	sprintf(nic->irq_name[irq], "%s Mbox", "NICVF");
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@  static int nicvf_register_misc_interrupt(struct nicvf *nic)
 	if (!nicvf_check_pf_ready(nic)) {
 		nicvf_disable_intr(nic, NICVF_INTR_MBOX, 0);
 		nicvf_unregister_interrupts(nic);
-		return 1;
+		return -EIO;
 	}
 
 	return 0;