[PATCH] dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix static checker warning

M'boumba Cedric Madianga cedric.madianga at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 00:52:35 PST 2015


This patch fix an unchecked dereference warning by returning operation
not permitted when stm32_dma_start_transfer() does not succeed to allocate
a virtual channel descriptor.

Signed-off-by: M'boumba Cedric Madianga <cedric.madianga at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
index 12f3a3e..0214bcf 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static int stm32_dma_start_transfer(struct stm32_dma_chan *chan)
 	if (!chan->desc) {
 		vdesc = vchan_next_desc(&chan->vchan);
 		if (!vdesc)
-			return 0;
+			return -EPERM;
 
 		chan->desc = to_stm32_dma_desc(vdesc);
 		chan->next_sg = 0;
-- 
1.9.1




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