[PATCH next] mtd: rawnand: loongson1: Fix error code in ls1x_nand_dma_transfer()

[Keguang Zhang]

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 05:16:03PM +0800, Keguang Zhang wrote:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > The "desc" variable is NULL and PTR_ERR(NULL) is zero/success.  Return
> > > a negative error code instead.
> > >
> > > Fixes: d2d10ede04b1 ("mtd: rawnand: Add Loongson-1 NAND Controller Driver")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > It's hard to know what the patch prefix should be here.  Ideally when we
> > > add a new driver we would use the patch prefix for the driver.
> > >
> > > Tired: subsystem: Add driver XXX
> > > Wired: subsystem: XXX: Add driver for XXX
> > >
> > >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > > index 6a369b1c7d86..8754bb4f8b56 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > > @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int ls1x_nand_dma_transfer(struct ls1x_nand_host *host, struct ls1x_nand_
> > >         desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(chan, dma_addr, op->len, xfer_dir, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
> > >         if (!desc) {
> > >                 dev_err(dev, "failed to prepare DMA descriptor\n");
> > > -               ret = PTR_ERR(desc);
> > > +               ret = -ENOMEM;
> >
> > Thank you for fixing this issue.
> > However, I believe -EIO is more appropriate than -ENOMEM, since
> > dmaengine_prep_slave_single() can return errors other than -ENOMEM.
> >
>
> It's not an I/O error so -EIO isn't correct.
>
> There are a bunch of reasons it could fail but most likely
> dma_pool_alloc() failed.  I think -ENOMEM is correct.
>

Have you reviewed the implementation of ls1x_dma_prep_slave_sg()?
Errors in this function can be caused not only by -ENOMEM, but also by -EINVAL.
Moreover, in most cases, the error handling logic for
dmaengine_prep_slave_single() returns -EIO when the function returns
NULL.

> regards,
> dan carpenter
>


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Best regards,

Keguang Zhang