Re: [PATCH] aic94xx: set error code on an error path in aic94xx_init

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu May 31 2018 - 15:15:52 EST


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:28 PM, Peter Melnichenko
<melnichenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When sas_domain_attach_transport returns NULL, aic94xx_init
> frees acquired resources but returns err equal to 0, as
> assigned by a previous statement.
>
> The patch sets err to -ENOMEM before jumping to the error label.

Wouldn't be better to fix a callee to return proper error code and...

> aic94xx_transport_template =
> sas_domain_attach_transport(&aic94xx_transport_functions);
> - if (!aic94xx_transport_template)
> + if (!aic94xx_transport_template) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> goto out_destroy_caches;
> + }

this becomes

err = _attach_();
if (err < 0)
goto ;
_template = err;

?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko