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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] genirq/timings: Fix error return code in irq_timings_test_irqs()
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:33:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6lps9u7.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210508062043.2524-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>

On Sat, May 08 2021 at 14:20, Zhen Lei wrote:
> Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling case instead
> of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Returning an error code is fine, but

>  
>  		__irq_timings_store(irq, irqs, ti->intervals[i]);
>  		if (irqs->circ_timings[i & IRQ_TIMINGS_MASK] != index) {
> +			ret = -EFAULT;

EFAULT is really not appropriate here. EFAULT is used for mapping
faults. ENOSPC or EBADSLT perhaps?

>  			pr_err("Failed to store in the circular buffer\n");
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  	}
>  
>  	if (irqs->count != ti->count) {
> +		ret = -EFAULT;

ERANGE?

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-08  6:20 [PATCH 1/1] genirq/timings: Fix error return code in irq_timings_test_irqs() Zhen Lei
2021-08-10 13:33 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-08-11  7:11   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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