linux-kernel - [PATCH] coresight: Handle build path error

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Date:	Fri,  6 May 2016 15:35:50 +0100
From:	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: Handle build path error

Enabling a component via sysfs (echo 1 > enable_source), would
trigger building a path from the enabled sources to the sink.
If there is an error in the process (e.g, sink not enabled or
the device (CPU corresponding to ETM) is not online), we never report
failure, except for leaving a message in the dmesg.

Do proper error checking for the build path and return the error.

Before:
 $ echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
 $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/cs_etm/cpu2/enable_source
 $ echo $?
 0

After:
 $ echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
 $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/cs_etm/cpu2/enable_source
 -bash: echo: write error: No such device or address

Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index 2ea5961..e0c5166 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ out:
 struct list_head *coresight_build_path(struct coresight_device *csdev)
 {
 	struct list_head *path;
+	int rc;
 
 	path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!path)
@@ -400,9 +401,10 @@ struct list_head *coresight_build_path(struct coresight_device *csdev)
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(path);
 
-	if (_coresight_build_path(csdev, path)) {
+	rc = _coresight_build_path(csdev, path);
+	if (rc) {
 		kfree(path);
-		path = NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(rc);
 	}
 
 	return path;
@@ -448,8 +450,9 @@ int coresight_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev)
 		goto out;
 
 	path = coresight_build_path(csdev);
-	if (!path) {
+	if (IS_ERR(path)) {
 		pr_err("building path(s) failed\n");
+		ret = PTR_ERR(path);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.9.5