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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:18:18 +0100 (CET)
From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
cc: lee.jones@...aro.org, laurentiu.palcu@...el.com, johan@...nel.org,
wsa@...-dreams.de, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: dln2: fix _dln2_transfer return code
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> If wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout returns a positive value
> it may be propagated as the return value of _dln2_transfer. This
> contradicts the documentation of the function and exposes unnecessary
> internals to the callers.
>
> This patch makes sure to set the return value to 0 in that case.
I didn't keep around the code or the address of the git tree, but I wonder
if this makes a later assignment of ret to 0 unnecessary?
julia
> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/dln2.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/dln2.c b/drivers/mfd/dln2.c
> index 9765a17..f0747a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/dln2.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/dln2.c
> @@ -462,7 +462,8 @@ static int _dln2_transfer(struct dln2_dev *dln2, u16 handle, u16 cmd,
> if (!ret)
> ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> goto out_free_rx_slot;
> - }
> + } else
> + ret = 0;
>
> if (dln2->disconnect) {
> ret = -ENODEV;
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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