netdev - [PATCH net-next 07/10] sfc: Explain why efx_mcdi_exit_assertion() ignores result of efx_mcdi

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:07:10 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 07/10] sfc: Explain why efx_mcdi_exit_assertion()
 ignores result of efx_mcdi_rpc()

Fix CID 113952 in Coverity report on Linux.

This is the one instance where we don't, and shouldn't, check the
return code from efx_mcdi_rpc().  It wasn't immediately obvious to me
why we didn't, so I think an explanation is in order.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
index 17b6463..fc5e7bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -1001,12 +1001,17 @@ static void efx_mcdi_exit_assertion(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
 	u8 inbuf[MC_CMD_REBOOT_IN_LEN];
 
-	/* Atomically reboot the mcfw out of the assertion handler */
+	/* If the MC is running debug firmware, it might now be
+	 * waiting for a debugger to attach, but we just want it to
+	 * reboot.  We set a flag that makes the command a no-op if it
+	 * has already done so.  We don't know what return code to
+	 * expect (0 or -EIO), so ignore it.
+	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(MC_CMD_REBOOT_OUT_LEN != 0);
 	MCDI_SET_DWORD(inbuf, REBOOT_IN_FLAGS,
 		       MC_CMD_REBOOT_FLAGS_AFTER_ASSERTION);
-	efx_mcdi_rpc(efx, MC_CMD_REBOOT, inbuf, MC_CMD_REBOOT_IN_LEN,
-		     NULL, 0, NULL);
+	(void) efx_mcdi_rpc(efx, MC_CMD_REBOOT, inbuf, MC_CMD_REBOOT_IN_LEN,
+			    NULL, 0, NULL);
 }
 
 int efx_mcdi_handle_assertion(struct efx_nic *efx)
-- 
1.7.7.6



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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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