[PATCH] mtd: rawnand: Fix an error handling path in 'ebu_dma_start()'

Markus Elfring Markus.Elfring at web.de
Sun Jan 24 15:05:05 EST 2021


> If 'dmaengine_prep_slave_single()' fails, we must undo a previous
> 'dma_map_single()' call, as already done in all the other error handling
> paths of this function.

Would you ever like to use an imperative wording for the change description?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=fdbc80bdc4365078a0f7d65631171cb80e3ffd6e#n89


…
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c
> @@ -318,8 +318,10 @@ static int ebu_dma_start(struct ebu_nand_controller *ebu_host, u32 dir,
>  	}
>
>  	tx = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(chan, buf_dma, len, dir, flags);
> -	if (!tx)
> -		return -ENXIO;
> +	if (!tx) {
> +		ret = -ENXIO;
> +		goto err_unmap;
> +	}
>
>  	tx->callback = callback;
…

By the way:
Can it be nicer to achieve the statement “ret = -EIO;” by a jump for
a target like “e_io” so that less exception handling code would be duplicated
for this function implementation?

Regards,
Markus



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