netdev - [PATCH 16/19] staging: wfx: fix error reporting in wfx_start

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Message-Id: <20200515083325.378539-17-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 10:33:22 +0200
From:   Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@...abs.com>
To:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jérôme Pouiller 
        <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>
Subject: [PATCH 16/19] staging: wfx: fix error reporting in wfx_start_ap()

From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>

If AP did not start, the error was not reported to mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
index 57304ed42e79..f448957c1a92 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
@@ -476,14 +476,17 @@ int wfx_start_ap(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
 {
 	struct wfx_vif *wvif = (struct wfx_vif *)vif->drv_priv;
 	struct wfx_dev *wdev = wvif->wdev;
+	int ret;
 
 	wvif =  NULL;
 	while ((wvif = wvif_iterate(wdev, wvif)) != NULL)
 		wfx_update_pm(wvif);
 	wvif = (struct wfx_vif *)vif->drv_priv;
 	wfx_upload_ap_templates(wvif);
-	hif_start(wvif, &vif->bss_conf, wvif->channel);
-	return 0;
+	ret = hif_start(wvif, &vif->bss_conf, wvif->channel);
+	if (ret > 0)
+		return -EIO;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 void wfx_stop_ap(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
-- 
2.26.2