linux-kernel - [PATCH V5 03/12] mailbox: Fix up error handling in mbox_request

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:41:33 -0800
From:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V5 03/12] mailbox: Fix up error handling in mbox_request_channel()

From: Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>

mbox_request_channel() currently returns EBUSY in the event the controller
is not present or if of_xlate() fails, but in neither case is EBUSY really
appropriate.  Return EPROBE_DEFER if the controller is not yet present
and change of_xlate() to return an ERR_PTR instead of NULL so that the
error can be propagated back to the caller of mbox_request_channel().

Signed-off-by: Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
---
New for v5.
---
 drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index c281e55..7b1e258 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ struct mbox_chan *mbox_request_channel(struct mbox_client *cl, int index)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 	}
 
-	chan = NULL;
+	chan = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
 	list_for_each_entry(mbox, &mbox_cons, node)
 		if (mbox->dev->of_node == spec.np) {
 			chan = mbox->of_xlate(mbox, &spec);
@@ -327,7 +327,12 @@ struct mbox_chan *mbox_request_channel(struct mbox_client *cl, int index)
 
 	of_node_put(spec.np);
 
-	if (!chan || chan->cl || !try_module_get(mbox->dev->driver->owner)) {
+	if (IS_ERR(chan)) {
+		mutex_unlock(&con_mutex);
+		return chan;
+	}
+
+	if (chan->cl || !try_module_get(mbox->dev->driver->owner)) {
 		dev_dbg(dev, "%s: mailbox not free\n", __func__);
 		mutex_unlock(&con_mutex);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
@@ -390,7 +395,7 @@ of_mbox_index_xlate(struct mbox_controller *mbox,
 	int ind = sp->args[0];
 
 	if (ind >= mbox->num_chans)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	return &mbox->chans[ind];
 }
-- 
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5

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