[PATCH -mm] IPS SCSI driver: Check return of scsi_add_host()

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 16:01:07 EST



drivers/scsi/ips.c: In function ‘ips_register_scsi’:
drivers/scsi/ips.c:6869:
warning: ignoring return value of ‘scsi_add_host’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

scsi_add_host() is __must_check, so let's check it's return and cleanup
appropriately on errors.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

drivers/scsi/ips.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/drivers/scsi/ips.c~fix 2007-09-02 20:21:27.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/drivers/scsi/ips.c 2007-09-02 20:25:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -6866,7 +6866,12 @@ ips_register_scsi(int index)
sh->max_channel = ha->nbus - 1;
sh->can_queue = ha->max_cmds - 1;

- scsi_add_host(sh, NULL);
+ if (scsi_add_host(sh, NULL)) {
+ IPS_PRINTK(KERN_WARNING, ha->pcidev, "Unable to add SCSI host\n");
+ free_irq(ha->irq, ha);
+ scsi_host_put(sh);
+ return -1;
+ }
scsi_scan_host(sh);

return 0;