linux-kernel - [PATCH review for 4.9 31/50] xen/manage: correct return value check on xenbus

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Date:   Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:53 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
        "Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH review for 4.9 31/50] xen/manage: correct return value check
 on xenbus_scanf()

From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>

[ Upstream commit 4fed1b125eb6252bde478665fc05d4819f774fa8 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
---
 drivers/xen/manage.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/manage.c b/drivers/xen/manage.c
index 26e5e8507f03..357a8db859c9 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static void sysrq_handler(struct xenbus_watch *watch, const char **vec,
 	err = xenbus_transaction_start(&xbt);
 	if (err)
 		return;
-	if (!xenbus_scanf(xbt, "control", "sysrq", "%c", &sysrq_key)) {
+	if (xenbus_scanf(xbt, "control", "sysrq", "%c", &sysrq_key) < 0) {
 		pr_err("Unable to read sysrq code in control/sysrq\n");
 		xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
 		return;
-- 
2.11.0