linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] chardev: set variable ret to -EBUSY before checking minor range overlap

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:49:46 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>
Cc:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chardev: set variable ret to -EBUSY before checking
 minor range overlap

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:53:06PM +0800, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> When allocating dynamic major, the minor range overlap check
> in __register_chrdev_region() will not fail, so actually
> there is no real case to passing non negative error code to
> caller. However, set variable ret to -EBUSY before chekcking
> minor range overlap will avoid false-positive warning from
> code analyzing tool(like Smatch) and also make the code more
> easy to understand.
> 
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>
> ---
>  fs/char_dev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

What tree was this patch made against?  I can't seem to apply it
anywhere :(

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h