From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:59:55 +0200
> David Miller wrote:
>
>> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:13:18 +0200
>>
>> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Subject: [PATCH] ide: ide_port_wait_ready() fix
>> >
>> > Fix for commit a20b2a4 ("ide: skip probe if there are no devices on
>> > the port (v2)"). We must check for slave device before failing.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This will mishandle the case where there is no slave in the device
>> list.
>
> I don't see it:
>
> @ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int ide_port_wait_ready(ide_hwif_
> {
> const struct ide_tp_ops *tp_ops = hwif->tp_ops;
> ide_drive_t *drive;
> - int i, rc;
> + int i, rc, prev_rc = 0;
>
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "Probing IDE interface %s...\n", hwif->name);
>
> @@ -623,8 +623,10 @@ static int ide_port_wait_ready(ide_hwif_
> tp_ops->write_devctl(hwif, ATA_DEVCTL_OBS);
> mdelay(2);
> rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
> - if (rc)
> + if (prev_rc && rc)
> goto out;
> + prev_rc = rc;
> + rc = 0;
> } else
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: ide_wait_not_busy() skipped\n",
> drive->name);
>
> If there is no slave device but there is a master device the code falls-through
> and returns a success.
That's not what we want, if there is only a master device and no slave device
in the list this loop is iterating over we want to return the error code
in "rc", not zero.
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