linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] xen/manage: correct return value check on xenbus

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Message-ID: <b281bf1a-27df-5331-8276-c529a8eec98f@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:04:32 -0500
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Juergen Gross <JGross@...e.com>
Cc:     xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] xen/manage: correct return value check on
 xenbus_scanf()

On 02/03/2017 03:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> A negative return value indicates an error; in fact the function at
> present won't ever return zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Applied to for-linus-4.11.

-boris