Re: [patch -next] ath9k: fix ath9k_hw_nvram_check_version()

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On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 13:59 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > There is a type bug so it always returns success.
> 
> How many false positives do you have to sift
> through to find this sort of error?

The return type is thoughtfully bool, so it should be easy in this case.  
The function has a return -EINVAL and a return true, so even without the 
return type it would be locally apparent that there is an inconsistency.

julia

> 
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom.c
> > @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ bool ath9k_hw_nvram_check_version(struct ath_hw *ah, int version, int minrev)
> >  		ath_err(common, "Bad EEPROM VER 0x%04x or REV 0x%04x\n",
> >  			ah->eep_ops->get_eeprom_ver(ah),
> >  			ah->eep_ops->get_eeprom_rev(ah));
> > -		return -EINVAL;
> > +		return false;
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	return true;
> 
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