[PATCH] mtd: rawnand: cadence: Fix return type of CDMA send-and-wait helper

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari at oracle.com
Fri Dec 19 03:09:30 PST 2025


cadence_nand_cdma_send_and_wait() propagates negative errno values
from cadence_nand_cdma_send(), returns -ETIMEDOUT on failure and -EIO
when the CDMA engine reports a command failure.

However, it is declared as u32, causing error codes to wrap.
Change the return type to int to correctly propagate errors.

Fixes: ec4ba01e894d ("mtd: rawnand: Add new Cadence NAND driver to MTD subsystem")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari at oracle.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c
index 5f037753f78c..99135ec23010 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ static int cadence_nand_cdma_send(struct cdns_nand_ctrl *cdns_ctrl,
 }
 
 /* Send SDMA command and wait for finish. */
-static u32
+static int
 cadence_nand_cdma_send_and_wait(struct cdns_nand_ctrl *cdns_ctrl,
 				u8 thread)
 {
-- 
2.50.1




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