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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2015-04-21 12:21:53 +0300
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2016-04-11 22:44:22 -0400
commit973fc47992c915d37b1b802188bdfda1cfd2ed51 (patch)
tree37482804c566f5eff6492df6867b2ac06490d364
parent809f952a39a2ccb9667f8b88b4ad283459b2880a (diff)
efi: efivar_create_sysfs_entry() should return negative error codes
[ Upstream commit f7ef7e3e506023f826c1ee60b7e59b985316e180 ] It's not very normal to return 1 on failure and 0 on success. There isn't a reason for it here, the callers don't care so long as it's non-zero on failure. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
index 7b2e0496e0c0..756eca8c4cf8 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static ssize_t efivar_delete(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
* efivar_create_sysfs_entry - create a new entry in sysfs
* @new_var: efivar entry to create
*
- * Returns 1 on failure, 0 on success
+ * Returns 0 on success, negative error code on failure
*/
static int
efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
char *short_name;
unsigned long variable_name_size;
efi_char16_t *variable_name;
+ int ret;
variable_name = new_var->var.VariableName;
variable_name_size = ucs2_strlen(variable_name) * sizeof(efi_char16_t);
@@ -558,7 +559,7 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
short_name = kzalloc(short_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!short_name)
- return 1;
+ return -ENOMEM;
/* Convert Unicode to normal chars (assume top bits are 0),
ala UTF-8 */
@@ -574,11 +575,11 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
new_var->kobj.kset = efivars_kset;
- i = kobject_init_and_add(&new_var->kobj, &efivar_ktype,
+ ret = kobject_init_and_add(&new_var->kobj, &efivar_ktype,
NULL, "%s", short_name);
kfree(short_name);
- if (i)
- return 1;
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
kobject_uevent(&new_var->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
efivar_entry_add(new_var, &efivar_sysfs_list);