[PATCH v3] memory-hotplug: fix store_mem_state() return value

From: Reza Arbab
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 11:29:52 EST


If store_mem_state() is called to online memory which is already online,
it will return 1, the value it got from device_online().

This is wrong because store_mem_state() is a device_attribute .store
function. Thus a non-negative return value represents input bytes read.

Set the return value to -EINVAL in this case.

Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 -> v3:
* David Rientjes pointed out that the backwards-compatible return
value in this situation is -EINVAL, not success. I had mistakenly
thought the behavior should be the same as online_store().

drivers/base/memory.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 1cea0ba..bb69e58 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -359,8 +359,11 @@ store_mem_state(struct device *dev,
err:
unlock_device_hotplug();

- if (ret)
+ if (ret < 0)
return ret;
+ if (ret)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return count;
}

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1.8.3.1