Re: [PATCH 3/20 V2] drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c: fix error return code

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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On 10/05/2012 10:41 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
> 
> The function peak_pci_probe() return 0 for success and negative value
> for most of its internal tests failures. There are two exceptions
> that are error cases going to failure_*:. Fore this two cases the
> function abort its success execution path, but returns non negative
> value, making it dificult for a caller function to notice the error.
> 
> This patch fixes the error cases that do not return negative values.
> 
> This was found by Coccinelle, but the code change was made by hand.
> This patch is not robot generated.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
> as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> (
> if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
>  { ... return ret; }
> |
> ret@p1 = 0
> )
> ... when != ret = e1
>     when != &ret
> *if(...)
> {
>   ... when != ret = e2
>       when forall
>  return ret;
> }
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>

Too late, v1 of this patch is already in net/master

regards, Marc

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