linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: rawnand: Fix return value check of wait_for_completion

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Message-Id: <20220421073537.71822-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:35:37 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bastian Hecht <hechtb@...glemail.com>,
        Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: rawnand: Fix return value check of wait_for_completion_timeout

On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 08:34:31 UTC, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> wait_for_completion_timeout() returns unsigned long not int.
> It returns 0 if timed out, and positive if completed.
> The check for <= 0 is ambiguous and should be == 0 here
> indicating timeout which is the only error case.
> 
> Fixes: 83738d87e3a0 ("mtd: sh_flctl: Add DMA capabilty")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/fixes, thanks.

Miquel