linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] PM / Hibernate: fix error handling in save

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Message-Id: <200910282308.04089.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:08:04 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PM / Hibernate: fix error handling in save_image

On Saturday 10 October 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2009-10-10 13:51:45, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > There are too many retval variables in save_image. Thus error return
> > value from snapshot_read_next may be ignored and only part of the
> > snapshot (successfully) written.
> > 
> > Remove 'error' variable, invert the condition in the do-while loop
> > and convert the loop to use only 'ret' variable.
> > 
> > Switch the rest of the function to consider only 'ret'.
> > 
> > Also make sure we end printed line by \n if an error occurs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
> 
> ACK.

Applied to suspend-2.6/linux-next.

Thanks,
Rafael
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