linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rapidio: Two fixes for 'rio_dma

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:04:34 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        mporter@...nel.crashing.org, alexandre.bounine@....com,
        lstoakes@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        jesper.nilsson@...s.com, christian.koenig@....com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rapidio: Two fixes for 'rio_dma_transfer()'

Hey,

I don't have any relation to the rapidio code short of making a small 
change to an API it used. But I reviewed both patches and they look 
correct to me.

Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>

Logan

On 17/09/17 04:33 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> These 2 patches are really close and are both related to error handling
> in 'rio_dma_transfer()'.
> The first one fixes some resources leak in case of error.
> The 2nd one fixes a test so that the corresponding error can be handled
> correctly.
> 
> I've splitted this into 2 paches because the first one looks trivial to me.
> But the 2nd one should require more attention, IMO. The existing error
> handling was dead code because 'dma_map_sg()' can not return -EFAULT. So
> this error handling code has never been executed/tested and I can't test it
> myself.
> 
> Christophe JAILLET (2):
>    rapidio: Fix resources leak in error handling path in
>      'rio_dma_transfer()'
>    rapidio: Fix an error handling in 'rio_dma_transfer()'
> 
>   drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>