Re: [patch v2] iio: adc: at91: signedness bug in at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name()

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>]

On 11/06/2014 at 11:13:17 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote :
> at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name() was returning -ENOMEM truncated to
> a positive u8 and that doesn't work.  I've changed it to int and
> refactored it to preserve the error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>

Also, tested on an at91sam9g45ek.

> ---
> I'm not able to compile this code.
> 
> v2:  Preserve the -ENOMEM
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> index 3b5bacd..2b6a9ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> @@ -510,12 +510,11 @@ static int at91_adc_channel_init(struct iio_dev *idev)
>  	return idev->num_channels;
>  }
>  
> -static u8 at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name(struct iio_dev *idev,
> +static int at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name(struct iio_dev *idev,
>  					     struct at91_adc_trigger *triggers,
>  					     const char *trigger_name)
>  {
>  	struct at91_adc_state *st = iio_priv(idev);
> -	u8 value = 0;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < st->trigger_number; i++) {
> @@ -528,15 +527,16 @@ static u8 at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name(struct iio_dev *idev,
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  		if (strcmp(trigger_name, name) == 0) {
> -			value = triggers[i].value;
>  			kfree(name);
> -			break;
> +			if (triggers[i].value == 0)
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +			return triggers[i].value;
>  		}
>  
>  		kfree(name);
>  	}
>  
> -	return value;
> +	return -EINVAL;
>  }
>  
>  static int at91_adc_configure_trigger(struct iio_trigger *trig, bool state)
> @@ -546,14 +546,14 @@ static int at91_adc_configure_trigger(struct iio_trigger *trig, bool state)
>  	struct iio_buffer *buffer = idev->buffer;
>  	struct at91_adc_reg_desc *reg = st->registers;
>  	u32 status = at91_adc_readl(st, reg->trigger_register);
> -	u8 value;
> +	int value;
>  	u8 bit;
>  
>  	value = at91_adc_get_trigger_value_by_name(idev,
>  						   st->trigger_list,
>  						   idev->trig->name);
> -	if (value == 0)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +	if (value < 0)
> +		return value;
>  
>  	if (state) {
>  		st->buffer = kmalloc(idev->scan_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);

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