Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read8

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu May 19 2022 - 00:33:50 EST


On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:11:51AM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> @@ -240,12 +259,14 @@ int rtl8188e_firmware_download(struct adapter *padapter)
> {
> int ret = _SUCCESS;
> u8 write_fw_retry = 0;
> + u8 reg;
> unsigned long fwdl_timeout;
> struct dvobj_priv *dvobj = adapter_to_dvobj(padapter);
> struct device *device = dvobj_to_dev(dvobj);
> struct rt_firmware_hdr *fwhdr = NULL;
> u8 *fw_data;
> u32 fw_size;
> + int res;
>
> if (!dvobj->firmware.data)
> ret = load_firmware(&dvobj->firmware, device);
> @@ -269,7 +290,11 @@ int rtl8188e_firmware_download(struct adapter *padapter)
>
> /* Suggested by Filen. If 8051 is running in RAM code, driver should inform Fw to reset by itself, */
> /* or it will cause download Fw fail. 2010.02.01. by tynli. */
> - if (rtw_read8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL) & RAM_DL_SEL) { /* 8051 RAM code */
> + res = rtw_read8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL, &reg);
> + if (res)
> + goto exit;

You didn't introduce this bug, but this path needs to have an error code
set. Also we really need to get rid of the _FAIL garbage. When I saw
this, I got "ret" and "res" mixed up so I thought we were returning
negative error codes instead of _FAIL. That would But then I saw we
are returning success.

> +
> + if (reg & RAM_DL_SEL) { /* 8051 RAM code */
> rtw_write8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL, 0x00);
> rtw_reset_8051(padapter);
> }
> @@ -278,7 +303,14 @@ int rtl8188e_firmware_download(struct adapter *padapter)
> fwdl_timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(500);
> while (1) {
> /* reset the FWDL chksum */
> - rtw_write8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL, rtw_read8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL) | FWDL_CHKSUM_RPT);
> + res = rtw_read8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL, &reg);
> + if (res == -ENODEV)
> + break;
> +
> + if (res)
> + continue;

This continue is wrong. If res = -EPERM then it's a forever loop.
Let's just break for every error.

> +
> + rtw_write8(padapter, REG_MCUFWDL, reg | FWDL_CHKSUM_RPT);
>
> ret = write_fw(padapter, fw_data, fw_size);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_led.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_led.c
> index 2f3000428af7..b532e614c5b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_led.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_led.c
> @@ -34,28 +34,38 @@ static void ResetLedStatus(struct LED_871x *pLed)
>
> static void SwLedOn(struct adapter *padapter, struct LED_871x *pLed)
> {
> - u8 LedCfg;
> + u8 LedCfg;

Please don't make unrelated changes.

regards,
dan carpenter