# \[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 25/43\] net: chelsio: cxgb4vf: Fix an error code in cxgb4vf\_pci\_probe()

- From: Sasha Levin \<sashal@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-11-30 15:10:56 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/11/1591640
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2021/11/1591567/t.md

```text
From: Zheyu Ma <redacted>

[ Upstream commit b82d71c0f84a2e5ccaaa7571dfd5c69e0e2cfb4a ]

During the process of driver probing, probe function should return < 0
for failure, otherwise kernel will treat value == 0 as success.

Therefore, we should set err to -EINVAL when
adapter->registered_device_map is NULL. Otherwise kernel will assume
that driver has been successfully probed and will cause unexpected
errors.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
index 2820a0bb971bf..f43d522369859 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
@@ -3200,6 +3200,7 @@ static int cxgb4vf_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	}
 	if (adapter->registered_device_map == 0) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not register any net devices\n");
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_disable_interrupts;
 	}
 
-- 
2.33.0

```