From ae54f3c89623b079adca0526e713c12ca4f424f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Stephen M. Cameron" Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:55:18 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] hpsa: return 0 from driver probe function on success, not 1 A return value of 1 is interpreted as an error. See pci_driver. in local_pci_probe(). If you're wondering how this ever could have worked, it's because it used to be the case that only return values less than zero were interpreted as failure. But even in the current kernel if the driver registers its various entry points with the kernel, and then returns a value which is interpreted as failure, those registrations aren't undone, so the driver still mostly works. However, the driver's remove function wouldn't be called on rmmod, and pci power management functions wouldn't work. In the case of Smart Array, since it has a battery backed cache (or else no cache) even if the driver is not shut down properly as long as there is no outstanding i/o, nothing too bad happens, which is why it took so long to notice. Requesting backport to stable because the change to pci-driver.c which requires driver probe functions to return 0 occurred between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 (the pci power management breakage) and again between 3.7 and 3.8 (pci_dev->driver getting set to NULL in local_pci_probe() preventing driver remove function from being called on rmmod.) Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index 891c86b66253..3c9797486cfb 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -4926,7 +4926,7 @@ reinit_after_soft_reset: hpsa_hba_inquiry(h); hpsa_register_scsi(h); /* hook ourselves into SCSI subsystem */ start_controller_lockup_detector(h); - return 1; + return 0; clean4: hpsa_free_sg_chain_blocks(h); -- 2.39.5