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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:07:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/20 V2] drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pcmcia.c: fix error return code
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To: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
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On 10/05/2012 10:41 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
>=20
> The function pcan_probe() return 0 for success and negative value
> for most of its internal tests failures. There is one exception
> that is error case going to probe_err_4:. Fore this error case, the
> function abort its success execution path but returns non negative
> value, making it difficult for a caller function to notice the error.
>=20
> This patch fixes the error case that do not return negative value.
>=20
> This was found by Coccinelle, but the code change was made by hand.
> This patch is not robot generated.
>=20
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
> as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>=20
> // <smpl>
> (
> if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret !=3D 0\))
>  { ... return ret; }
> |
> ret@p1 =3D 0
> )
> ... when !=3D ret =3D e1
>     when !=3D &ret
> *if(...)
> {
>   ... when !=3D ret =3D e2
>       when forall
>  return ret;
> }
> // </smpl>
>=20
> 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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