Re: [GIT PULL LTSI-4.14] LTSI-v4.14 Backport or I2C R-Car Fix

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Hi Simon,

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:52 PM Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:51 AM Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This is intended as a submission to LTSI-4.14. It is the backport
> > > of a fixes for safe DMA buffer handling for the SH-Mobile I2C driver
> > > and I2C code. All patches are present in v4.19-rc3.
> > >
> > > This pull-request is based on
> > > "[GIT PULL LTSI-4.14] LTSI-v4.14 Backport or I2C R-Car Fix"
> > > tagged as backport/v4.14.61/snapshot-to-v4.18+fixes-flattened,
> > > which I have already sent a pull-request for.
> > >
> > > There are 10 patches.
> > >
> > > I have performed build testing of this backports on a wide range of
> > > defconfigs and I am not aware of any regressions over v4.14.40 (the
> > > baseline chosen when this work began).
> > >
> > > The following changes since commit 4d4605e5c137ed9a53582e573118cbc16b82cbf1:
> > >
> > >   i2c: rcar: implement STOP and REP_START according to docs (2018-08-28 13:35:06 +0200)
> > >
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > >
> > >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas-backport.git backport/v4.14.61/snapshot-to-v4.18+fixes-v2-flattened
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 720043a4efbb3356db116d084c7b877ad41ee51a:
> > >
> > >   i2c: sh_mobile: fix leak when using DMA bounce buffer (2018-09-17 15:54:30 +0200)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Second Round of LTSI-v4.14 Backports of I2C R-Car Fixes
> > >
> > > Base:
> > > * v4.14.61
> > > * Backports of components for Renesas SoCs to v4.18
> > > * First round of Backports of I2C R-Car Fixes
> > >
> > > Backport of post-v4.18 fix for i2c-shmobile and I2C core
> > > The focus of these fixes is to make DMA buffer handling safe
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Peter Rosin (1):
> > >       i2c: smbus: kill memory leak on emulated and failed DMA SMBus xfers
> > >
> > > Wenwen Wang (1):
> > >       i2c: core: smbus: fix a potential missing-check bug
> > >
> > > Wolfram Sang (8):
> > >       i2c: dev: mark RDWR buffers as DMA_SAFE
> > >       i2c: refactor i2c_master_{send_recv}
> > >       i2c: add i2c_master_{send|recv}_dmasafe
> > >       i2c: smbus: use DMA safe buffers for emulated SMBus transactions
> > >       i2c: add docs to clarify DMA handling
> > >       i2c: refactor function to release a DMA safe buffer
> > >       i2c: sh_mobile: define start_ch() void as it only returns 0 anyhow
> >
> > Somehow I missed that the above introduces a (rightful) compiler warning:
> >
> >     drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c: In function ‘start_ch’:
> >     drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c:616:10: warning: ‘return’ with
> > a value, in function returning void
> >        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >               ^
> >     drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sh_mobile.c:611:13: note: declared here
> >      static void start_ch(struct sh_mobile_i2c_data *pd, struct
> > i2c_msg *usr_msg,
> >                  ^~~~~~~~
> >
> > as it depends on commit 7957c2e276ee73e6 ("i2c: sh_mobile: use core to
> > detect 'no zero length read' quirk"), which was not backported.
> >
> > I think the easiest solution is to just drop "i2c: sh_mobile: define
> > start_ch() void as it only returns 0 anyhow", as it was meant not to
> > introduce any behavioral changes, and nothing depends on it.
> >
> > Do you agree?
> > Thanks!
>
> Likewise, thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Your proposed solution looks good to me.
> Have you tested it?

More or less, the error case is not easily triggered, and the code should
behave as before.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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