netdev - [PATCH 1/5] mtd: Initialize ->fail_addr early in mtd

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Message-Id: <20180212210311.23244-2-boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:03:07 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Joern Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
        Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>,
        Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mtd: Initialize ->fail_addr early in mtd_erase()

mtd_erase() can return an error before ->fail_addr is initialized to
MTD_FAIL_ADDR_UNKNOWN. Move this initialization at the very beginning
of the function.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index a1c94526fb88..c87859ff338b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -953,6 +953,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_mtd_device);
  */
 int mtd_erase(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr)
 {
+	instr->fail_addr = MTD_FAIL_ADDR_UNKNOWN;
+
 	if (!mtd->erasesize || !mtd->_erase)
 		return -ENOTSUPP;
 
@@ -961,7 +963,6 @@ int mtd_erase(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr)
 	if (!(mtd->flags & MTD_WRITEABLE))
 		return -EROFS;
 
-	instr->fail_addr = MTD_FAIL_ADDR_UNKNOWN;
 	if (!instr->len) {
 		instr->state = MTD_ERASE_DONE;
 		mtd_erase_callback(instr);
-- 
2.14.1