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* Re: [PATCH] jffs2:Fix error paths return value for the function read_unknown
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@ 2015-07-08 21:20 ` Richard Weinberger
       [not found]   ` <559D943B.1030708@gmail.com>
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From: Richard Weinberger @ 2015-07-08 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nicholas Krause; +Cc: David Woodhouse, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, LKML

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
> This fixes the error paths in the function read_unknown that return
> a value to correctly return -EIO rather then the kernel value for
> successful function execution of zero to indicate to this function's
> callers that a failure has occurred related to I/O and needs to be
> handled by this function's caller.

Did you test this patch?
I guess not.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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* Re: [PATCH] jffs2:Fix error paths return value for the function read_unknown
       [not found]   ` <559D943B.1030708@gmail.com>
@ 2015-07-08 21:27     ` Richard Weinberger
  2015-07-08 21:28     ` Richard Weinberger
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Weinberger @ 2015-07-08 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nick; +Cc: David Woodhouse, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, LKML

Am 08.07.2015 um 23:20 schrieb nick:
> 
> 
> On 2015-07-08 05:20 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This fixes the error paths in the function read_unknown that return
>>> a value to correctly return -EIO rather then the kernel value for
>>> successful function execution of zero to indicate to this function's
>>> callers that a failure has occurred related to I/O and needs to be
>>> handled by this function's caller.
>>
>> Did you test this patch?
>> I guess not.
>>
> No I don't have hardware why?

It is broken.
Both paths are not fatal errors and the soft error
is already handled by calling jffs2_mark_node_obsolete().

Thanks,
//richard

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* Re: [PATCH] jffs2:Fix error paths return value for the function read_unknown
       [not found]   ` <559D943B.1030708@gmail.com>
  2015-07-08 21:27     ` Richard Weinberger
@ 2015-07-08 21:28     ` Richard Weinberger
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Weinberger @ 2015-07-08 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nick; +Cc: David Woodhouse, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, LKML

>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, damn. I should have stopped reading here. /ignore.

Thanks,
//richard

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