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authorJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2008-06-12 14:00:18 -0700
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2008-07-14 13:57:16 -0700
commit11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a (patch)
tree03fa1a4927f2d9856ee45a64d522424478058b6f /fs/configfs
parent6d8344baee99402de58b5fa5dfea197242955c15 (diff)
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configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently return a new item/group. A return of NULL signifies an error. Because of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack. Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes when these operations fail. This patch adds that ability by changing the ->make_item/group() ops to return an int. Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/configfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/configfs/dir.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index 614e382a6049..0e64312a084c 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -1073,25 +1073,24 @@ static int configfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
group = NULL;
item = NULL;
if (type->ct_group_ops->make_group) {
- group = type->ct_group_ops->make_group(to_config_group(parent_item), name);
- if (group) {
+ ret = type->ct_group_ops->make_group(to_config_group(parent_item), name, &group);
+ if (!ret) {
link_group(to_config_group(parent_item), group);
item = &group->cg_item;
}
} else {
- item = type->ct_group_ops->make_item(to_config_group(parent_item), name);
- if (item)
+ ret = type->ct_group_ops->make_item(to_config_group(parent_item), name, &item);
+ if (!ret)
link_obj(parent_item, item);
}
mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex);
kfree(name);
- if (!item) {
+ if (ret) {
/*
- * If item == NULL, then link_obj() was never called.
+ * If ret != 0, then link_obj() was never called.
* There are no extra references to clean up.
*/
- ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out_put;
}