linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] vfat: Deduplicate hex2bin()

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Date:   Tue, 01 Aug 2017 05:56:36 +0900
From:   OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] vfat: Deduplicate hex2bin()

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> writes:

>> > +				fill = hex2bin(hc, ip + 1, 2);
>> > +				if (fill)
>> > +					return fill;
>> 
>> This should not use random errno (in this case, it is -1 (EPERM)).
>
> You perhaps missed the side note I put after --- line.
> It reflects this change.

Sure, I missed to read it. But same here, hex2bin() doesn't care FS's
errno, it is what "random errno" I meant (I.e. hex2bin() might change it
to bool or any other errno again).
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>