Re: [PATCH] iio: maxim_thermocouple: return -EINVAL on invalid read size

From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 15:11:38 EST


On 10/25/2016 09:04 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the case that the read size is not 2 or 4 bytes
> then maxim_thermocouple_read is not initializing ret and
> hence may return early with a bogus error return or
> just through to return with a bogos unread value in *val.
> Fix this by setting ret to -EINVAL for invalid (unhandled)
> read sizes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Again, Arnd already took the prize, https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/25/518