Re: [patch] iommu/vt-d: unlock on error in intel_iommu_load_translation_tables()

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch found some error paths that don't unlock.  Also we can return
> -ENOMEM instead of -1 if we don't have an old root entry.
> 
> Fixes: 5908f10af4b9 ('iommu/vt-d: datatypes and functions used for kdump')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

> Releasing the lock is good, but we might need to do other error handling
> as well.  Presumably this function always succeeds anyway?  It seems
> like it might be essential for booting.

What do you mean by 'other error handling'? In error case a negative
value is returned and the caller checks that.


	Joerg

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