From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arend Van Spriel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] orinoco: fix improper return value Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:30:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1481157602-4011-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Pan Bian , Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1481157602-4011-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 8-12-2016 1:40, Pan Bian wrote: > Function orinoco_ioctl_commit() returns 0 (indicates success) when the > call to orinoco_lock() fails. Thus, the return value is inconsistent with > the execution status. It may be better to return "-EBUSY" when the call > to orinoco_lock() fails. > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188671 > > Signed-off-by: Pan Bian > --- > drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c > index 1d4dae4..fee57ea 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c > @@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_commit(struct net_device *dev, > return 0; > > if (orinoco_lock(priv, &flags) != 0) > - return err; > + return -EBUSY; Actually, orinoco_lock will return either -EBUSY or 0 so maybe better to just do: err = orinoco_lock(priv, &flags); if (err < 0) return err; Regards, Arend > err = orinoco_commit(priv); > >