linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/9] coresight: stm: return error code instead of zero in .packet()

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Message-Id: <1480438039-24960-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:47:11 -0700
From:   Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] coresight: stm: return error code instead of zero in .packet()

From: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>

In STM framework driver, the trace data writing loop would keep running
until it received a negative return value or the whole trace packet has
been written to STM device.  So if the .packet() of STM device always
returns zero since the device is not enabled or the parameter isn't
supported, STM framework driver will stall into a dead loop.

Returning -EACCES (Permission denied) in .packet() if the device is
disabled makes more sense, and this is the same for returning -EINVAL
if the channel passed into is not supported.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
index 49e0f1b925a5..d397849c2c6a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
@@ -419,10 +419,10 @@ static ssize_t stm_generic_packet(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
 
 	if (!(drvdata && local_read(&drvdata->mode)))
-		return 0;
+		return -EACCES;
 
 	if (channel >= drvdata->numsp)
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ch_addr = (unsigned long)stm_channel_addr(drvdata, channel);
 
-- 
2.7.4