Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: comedi: cb_pcidas64: Fixed an if-statement check

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:51:45AM +0300, Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos wrote:
> Fixed in if-statemnt responsible for a sanity check inside the
> prep_ao_dma function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos <dimitrios.semitsoglou@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> index 6f7fd99..a2e6f96 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> @@ -3392,8 +3392,8 @@ static int prep_ao_dma(struct comedi_device *dev, const struct comedi_cmd *cmd)
>  	num_bytes = load_ao_dma_buffer(dev, cmd);
>  	if (num_bytes == 0)
>  		return -1;
> -	if (num_bytes >= DMA_BUFFER_SIZE) ;
> -	load_ao_dma(dev, cmd);
> +	if (num_bytes >= DMA_BUFFER_SIZE)
> +		load_ao_dma(dev, cmd);

Are you sure about this change?  I think someone forgot to include an
error check here, the driver was working with this function always being
called, and now you only do it for the extreme case.

Have you checked it somehow?

thanks,

greg k-h