netdev - Re: [net 3/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, return -EINVAL if size is zero

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Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 23:13:05 +0900
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...lanox.com>,
        Kamal Heib <kamalh@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net 3/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, return -EINVAL if size is zero

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> wrote:
> From: Kamal Heib <kamalh@...lanox.com>
>
> In the current code, if a size of zero is passed to
> mlx5_fpga_mem_{read|write}_i2c() functions the "err"

Don't we need to fix the call site where zero size is provided and not
in called function?

Isn't sending down a zero size a sign for a bug which we are not fixing?

> return value will not initialized.
>
> Fixes: a9956d35d199 ('net/mlx5: FPGA, Add SBU infrastructure')
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib <kamalh@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>