From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.87 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1e1lIi-0002kH-09 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 03:33:56 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098410.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id v9A3WDX5038681 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 23:33:28 -0400 Received: from e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.109]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2dgk5k09e2-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:33:28 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:33:26 +0100 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id v9A3XNTg31588508 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 03:33:24 GMT Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id v9A3XPfp031562 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:33:26 +1100 From: Cyril Bur To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com, boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, sjitindarsingh@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH v4 04/10] mtd: powernv_flash: Don't return -ERESTARTSYS on interrupted token acquisition Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:32:56 +1100 In-Reply-To: <20171010033302.20854-1-cyrilbur@gmail.com> References: <20171010033302.20854-1-cyrilbur@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20171010033302.20854-5-cyrilbur@gmail.com> List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Because the MTD core might split up a read() or write() from userspace into several calls to the driver, we may fail to get a token but already have done some work, best to return -EINTR back to userspace and have them decide what to do. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur --- drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c index 4dd3b5d2feb2..3343d4f5c4f3 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ enum flash_op { FLASH_OP_ERASE, }; +/* + * Don't return -ERESTARTSYS if we can't get a token, the MTD core + * might have split up the call from userspace and called into the + * driver more than once, we'll already have done some amount of work. + */ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, enum flash_op op, loff_t offset, size_t len, size_t *retlen, u_char *buf) { @@ -63,6 +68,8 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, enum flash_op op, if (token < 0) { if (token != -ERESTARTSYS) dev_err(dev, "Failed to get an async token\n"); + else + token = -EINTR; return token; } -- 2.14.2