Re: [PATCH] pstore: return error code (if any) from efi_pstore_write

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On 13 March 2017 at 12:46, Kalugin, Evgeny <evgeny.kalugin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From 655a261d71af9de62e0e23ae0eb6f75037ae5e3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Evgeny Kalugin <evgeny.kalugin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:22:25 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] pstore: return error code (if any) from efi_pstore_write
>
> For some reason return value from actual variable setting was ignored.
> With this change error code get transferred upwards through call stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kalugin <evgeny.kalugin@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch.

Could you give a bit more detail on how this broke things for you?

> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> index f402ba2..2ea808e 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type,
>         for (i = 0; i < DUMP_NAME_LEN; i++)
>                 efi_name[i] = name[i];
>
> -       efivar_entry_set_safe(efi_name, vendor, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
> +       ret = efivar_entry_set_safe(efi_name, vendor, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
>                               !pstore_cannot_block_path(reason),
>                               size, psi->buf);
>
> --
> 1.9.1
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