[PATCH] jffs2:Fix error paths return value for the function read_unknown

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Wed Jul 8 14:27:11 PDT 2015


Am 08.07.2015 um 23:20 schrieb nick:
> 
> 
> On 2015-07-08 05:20 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This fixes the error paths in the function read_unknown that return
>>> a value to correctly return -EIO rather then the kernel value for
>>> successful function execution of zero to indicate to this function's
>>> callers that a failure has occurred related to I/O and needs to be
>>> handled by this function's caller.
>>
>> Did you test this patch?
>> I guess not.
>>
> No I don't have hardware why?

It is broken.
Both paths are not fatal errors and the soft error
is already handled by calling jffs2_mark_node_obsolete().

Thanks,
//richard



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