Re: [PATCH V3 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add APIs to send/recv hvsock packet and get the r/w-ability

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Fri Jul 24 2015 - 02:27:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:24:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:10:57PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > In this specific case, writing it as "if (ret != 0)" caused the bug. If
> > we had written it as "if (ret) return ret;" then there are no zeroes so
> > wouldn't have been any temptation to return the zero instead of the ret.
>
> I did a search to see if returning the zero instead of the ret was a
> common mistake and it seems like it might be. I did:
>
> grep 'if (ret != 0)' drivers/ -r -A1 -n | grep "return 0;" | perl -ne 's/.c-(\d+)-/.c:$1/; print'
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c:111 return 0;
This is also ok, the function is supposed to return ret or-ed with the
relevant flags based on the scan position. It is considered error if 0
is returned (without any flag).

regards
sudip
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