From f42158fe6785dd366073c7fd00f159a65c631597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:27:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] zcache/tmem: Better error checking on frontswap_register_ops return value. In the past it either used to be NULL or the "older" backend. Now we also return -Exx error codes. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Bob Liu Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Andor Daam Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Florian Schmaus Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Stefan Hengelein Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 5 ++++- drivers/xen/tmem.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c index 6bd4ebb3494d..118602ff3aed 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c @@ -1886,8 +1886,11 @@ static int __init zcache_init(void) namestr, frontswap_has_exclusive_gets, !disable_frontswap_ignore_nonactive); #endif - if (old_ops != NULL) + if (IS_ERR(old_ops) || old_ops) { + if (IS_ERR(old_ops)) + return PTR_RET(old_ops); pr_warn("%s: frontswap_ops overridden\n", namestr); + } } if (ramster_enabled) ramster_init(!disable_cleancache, !disable_frontswap, diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c index 8adde8e8428c..e3600be4e7fa 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c +++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c @@ -397,8 +397,11 @@ static int xen_tmem_init(void) frontswap_register_ops(&tmem_frontswap_ops); tmem_frontswap_poolid = -1; - if (old_ops) + if (IS_ERR(old_ops) || old_ops) { + if (IS_ERR(old_ops)) + return PTR_ERR(old_ops); s = " (WARNING: frontswap_ops overridden)"; + } printk(KERN_INFO "frontswap enabled, RAM provided by " "Xen Transcendent Memory%s\n", s); } -- 2.11.0