From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Fleming, Matt" <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
"Anvin, H Peter" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] efi: a misc char interface for user to update efi firmware
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 21:14:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151103201455.GD3620@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F54AEECA5E2B9541821D670476DAE19C4A879C38@PGSMSX102.gar.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:17:28AM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> This is not a return value to indicate what is going now. It is a flag
> used in "cap_info->index" which positive value has a meaning of index
> number. I am using the negative value for the flag which similar to
> the implementation of pointer & error pointer (ERR_PTR).
Ok, but that doesn't make any sense: you're assigning UPLOAD_DONE to
cap_info->index only once in efi_capsule_submit_update() and you're not
testing it anywhere. Yeah, yeah, you're implicitly testing for it by
doing the "< 0" check.
So simply assign -1 to ->index to mean *any* type of error occurred,
remove the defines and you can always test for "< 0" to mean "did
something fail".
You simply don't need two error values...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-03 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-28 17:58 [PATCH v9 0/1] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-10-28 17:58 ` [PATCH v9 1/1] efi: a misc char interface for user to update efi firmware Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-11-01 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-01 10:52 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-11-01 10:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-01 11:11 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-11-01 12:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-02 7:17 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-11-03 20:14 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-11-05 3:42 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
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2015-11-02 6:47 Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-11-03 19:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-16 11:09 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2015-12-16 11:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-17 1:59 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
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