[PATCH 1/1] ACPI/APEI: Fix the returned value in erst_dbg_read

From: Adrian Huang
Date: Fri Dec 14 2012 - 03:09:20 EST


If the persistent store is empty initially, the function 'erst_dbg_read'
returns a nonzero value. The better way is to return a zero indicating the
read operation reaches EOF.

Tested on two different servers.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <adrian.huang@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
index 903549d..04ab5c9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
@@ -111,8 +111,17 @@ retry_next:
if (rc)
goto out;
/* no more record */
- if (id == APEI_ERST_INVALID_RECORD_ID)
+ if (id == APEI_ERST_INVALID_RECORD_ID) {
+ /*
+ * If the persistent store is empty initially, the function
+ * 'erst_read' below will return "-ENOENT" value. This causes
+ * 'retry_next' label is entered again. The returned value
+ * should be zero indicating the read operation is EOF.
+ */
+ len = 0;
+
goto out;
+ }
retry:
rc = len = erst_read(id, erst_dbg_buf, erst_dbg_buf_len);
/* The record may be cleared by others, try read next record */
--
1.7.10.4

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