On 30/09/15 20:40, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > >> The driver is using -1 instead of the -ENOMEM defined macro to specify >> that a buffer allocation failed. Since the error number is propagated, >> the caller will get a -EPERM which is the wrong error condition. > > Generally I agree that the more specific errno, the better. > > But I am not really sure where you are seeing the bug (mapping to -EPERM) > in this case? I think the only caller of hiddev_connect() should be > hid_connect(), and the only thing that guy cares about whether individual > callbacks succeed or fail, so that it sets hdev->clamed flags accordingly. > > Could you please be more specific about the -EPERM mapping you are talking > about? > > Thanks, > I agree with you. The only caller of hiddev_connect() only checks if the callback succeded. It checks if the return < 0. What I meant is that -1 means -EPERM. [0] This patch is purely about the correctness of using -ENOMEM. The word "propagated" was not the best way to describe this problem. I could edit the commit message if you would like. Thanks for the review, Luis [0] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h#L15 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
