On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 03:42:22PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> In the unlikely event that setting the software flow-control characters
> fails the other flow-control settings should still be updated.
>
> Fixes: 7748feffcd80 ("USB: serial: cp210x: add support for software flow control")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.11
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c b/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c
> index 09b845d0da41..b41e2c7649fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c
> @@ -1217,9 +1217,7 @@ static void cp210x_set_flow_control(struct tty_struct *tty,
> chars.bXonChar = START_CHAR(tty);
> chars.bXoffChar = STOP_CHAR(tty);
>
> - ret = cp210x_set_chars(port, &chars);
> - if (ret)
> - return;
> + cp210x_set_chars(port, &chars);
What's the odds that someone tries to add the error checking back in
here, in a few years? Can you put a comment here saying why you are not
checking it?
thanks,
greg k-h
