Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: atmel: Check return code of dmaengine_submit()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 04:30:04PM +0200, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> dma_cookie_t < 0 indicates an error code, check for it.

Very odd changelog text, please be more descriptive about what is
happening here.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index 2c99a47a2535..376f7a9c2868 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -1004,6 +1004,11 @@ static void atmel_tx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
>  		desc->callback = atmel_complete_tx_dma;
>  		desc->callback_param = atmel_port;
>  		atmel_port->cookie_tx = dmaengine_submit(desc);
> +		if (dma_submit_error(atmel_port->cookie_tx)) {
> +			dev_err(port->dev, "dma_submit_error %d\n",
> +				atmel_port->cookie_tx);
> +			return;

What can a user do with this error message?

Have you seen this happen in real life?

What commit does this "fix"?

thanks,

greg k-h