[PATCH 1/9] coresight: stm: return error code instead of zero in .packet()

Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Tue Nov 29 08:47:11 PST 2016


From: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org>

In STM framework driver, the trace data writing loop would keep running
until it received a negative return value or the whole trace packet has
been written to STM device.  So if the .packet() of STM device always
returns zero since the device is not enabled or the parameter isn't
supported, STM framework driver will stall into a dead loop.

Returning -EACCES (Permission denied) in .packet() if the device is
disabled makes more sense, and this is the same for returning -EINVAL
if the channel passed into is not supported.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
index 49e0f1b925a5..d397849c2c6a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
@@ -419,10 +419,10 @@ static ssize_t stm_generic_packet(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
 
 	if (!(drvdata && local_read(&drvdata->mode)))
-		return 0;
+		return -EACCES;
 
 	if (channel >= drvdata->numsp)
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ch_addr = (unsigned long)stm_channel_addr(drvdata, channel);
 
-- 
2.7.4




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