Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/aoe: handle sysfs errors

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> 
> ---
> 
>  drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
> index 393b86a..04f9b03 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
> @@ -64,13 +64,36 @@ static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_f
>  	.show = aoedisk_show_fwver
>  };
>  
> -static void
> +static int
>  aoedisk_add_sysfs(struct aoedev *d)
>  {
> -	sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_state.attr);
> -	sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_mac.attr);
> -	sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_netif.attr);
> -	sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_fwver.attr);
> +	int err;
> +
> +	err = sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_state.attr);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +
> +	err = sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_mac.attr);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto err_out_state;
> +
> +	err = sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_netif.attr);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto err_out_mac;
> +
> +	err = sysfs_create_file(&d->gd->kobj, &disk_attr_fwver.attr);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto err_out_netif;

Oh, and in the future, it's easier to use an attribute group for this
kind of thing than backing out each and every attribute that is added.
The function to add all files in the attribute group properly tears
things down if there is an error along the way.

thanks,

greg k-h