[PATCH v2 03/46] mtd: Don't unconditionally unregister reboot notifier

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 21 07:31:20 PDT 2016


On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:45:12 +0200
Daniel Walter <dwalter at sigma-star.at> wrote:

> From: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
> 
> del_mtd_device() is allowed to fail.
> i.e. when the MTD is busy.
> Unregister the reboot notifier only when we're really
> about to delete the MTD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index e3936b8..36e5fb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -654,17 +654,22 @@ int mtd_device_unregister(struct mtd_info *master)
>  {
>  	int err;
>  
> -	if (master->_reboot)
> -		unregister_reboot_notifier(&master->reboot_notifier);
> -
>  	err = del_mtd_partitions(master);
>  	if (err)
>  		return err;
>  
>  	if (!device_is_registered(&master->dev))
> -		return 0;
> +		goto unregister;
>  
> -	return del_mtd_device(master);
> +	err = del_mtd_device(master);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +
> +unregister:
> +	if (master->_reboot)
> +		unregister_reboot_notifier(&master->reboot_notifier);
> +
> +	return 0;

How about:

	if (device_is_registered(&master->dev)) {
		err = del_mtd_device(master);
		if (err)
			return err;
	}

	if (master->_reboot)
		unregister_reboot_notifier(&master->reboot_notifier);

	return 0;

This way you get rid of the unregister label, which IMHO improves
readability.

>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_device_unregister);
>  




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