On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I just noticed this in review. The get_register_interruptible() should
> return zero on success but it instead returns the value that it read.
>
> I looked at all the places that called this directly and they check for
> negatives and treat greater than or equal to zero as success. This
> function is also called as the ->get_register() function pointer. Some
> of the callers of that treat all non-zero returns as errors, so it's
> possible that this bug causes some problems in real life.
>
> I could not find any callers that rely on the current behavior, and this
> makes the function align with the get_register_interruptible() in
> ab3100-core.c.
>
> Fixes: 47c1697508f2 ("mfd: Align ab8500 with the abx500 interface")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c
> index 30d09d177171..66458a329127 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-core.c
> @@ -252,16 +252,18 @@ static int get_register_interruptible(struct ab8500
> *ab8500, u8 bank,
> mutex_lock(&ab8500->lock);
>
> ret = ab8500->read(ab8500, addr);
> - if (ret < 0)
> + if (ret < 0) {
> dev_err(ab8500->dev, "failed to read reg %#x: %d\n",
> addr, ret);
> - else
> - *value = ret;
> + return ret;
Looks like you just broke the AB8500.
What is it you're trying to achieve here? Apart from attempting to
return with the mutex still held, what semantics have you changed?
> + }
> +
> + *value = ret;
>
> mutex_unlock(&ab8500->lock);
> dev_vdbg(ab8500->dev, "rd: addr %#x => data %#x\n", addr, ret);
>
> - return ret;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static int ab8500_get_register(struct device *dev, u8 bank,
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