[PATCH] UBI: fix return error code

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 04:02:17 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 20.11.2015 um 11:14 schrieb Sudip Mukherjee:
> > We are checking dfs_rootdir for error value or NULL. But in the
> > conditional ternary operator we returned -ENODEV if dfs_rootdir contains
> > an error value and returned PTR_ERR(dfs_rootdir) if dfs_rootdir is NULL.
> > So in the case of dfs_rootdir being NULL we actually assigned 0 to err
> > and returned it to the caller implying a success.
> > Lets return -ENODEV when dfs_rootdir is NULL else return
> > PTR_ERR(dfs_rootdir).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip at vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c
> > index b077e43..c4cb15a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c
> > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int ubi_debugfs_init(void)
> >  
> >  	dfs_rootdir = debugfs_create_dir("ubi", NULL);
> >  	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dfs_rootdir)) {
> > -		int err = dfs_rootdir ? -ENODEV : PTR_ERR(dfs_rootdir);
> > +		int err = dfs_rootdir ? PTR_ERR(dfs_rootdir) : -ENODEV;
> >  
> 
> Nice catch!

Hi Richard,
It is still not on linus-next. Did you miss it?

regards
sudip



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