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From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	anssi.hannula@iki.fi, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	axel.lin@gmail.com, trenn@suse.de, len.brown@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression 2.6.39-rc1 for sony-laptop
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:55:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110402155549.GA6724@kamineko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikVGWM3T1y2XvwkHB+Yub5EhG1RPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:55:38PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On 4/2/11, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > @@ -810,6 +810,11 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_cleanup(struct
> > platform_device *pd)
> >  static int sony_find_snc_handle(int handle)
> >  {
> >  	int i;
> > +
> > +	/* not initialized yet, return early */
> > +	if (!handles)
> > +		return -1;
> 
> -1 is -EPERM.  That's not the right error code here.  Maybe -EINVAL?

this error is not propagated to userspace. If necessary I can review all
error codes in the sony-laptop internal functions (where -1 is a fairly
common return code for error conditions).

I remember a discussion on LKML recently about error codes but I'm not
sure what the outcome was (if any).

-- 
mattia
:wq!

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-02 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01 17:16 Regression 2.6.39-rc1 for sony-laptop Andrea Gelmini
2011-04-01 17:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-04-01 17:30   ` Anssi Hannula
2011-04-02  9:45     ` Andrea Gelmini
2011-04-02  9:44   ` Andrea Gelmini
2011-04-02 10:00     ` Mattia Dongili
2011-04-02 11:55       ` Dan Carpenter
2011-04-02 15:55         ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
2011-04-04  7:37           ` Dan Carpenter
2011-04-04 23:44             ` sony-laptop: fix early NULL pointer dereference Mattia Dongili
2011-04-05  0:26               ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-05 12:50                 ` Dan Carpenter

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