Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: return -ENOMEM in ion_cma_heap allocation failure

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 11:05:44 EST


On 12/08/2016 09:05 PM, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> Initial Commit 349c9e138551 ("gpu: ion: add CMA heap") returns -1 in allocation
> failure. The returned value is passed up to userspace through ioctl. So user can
> misunderstand error reason as -EPERM(1) rather than -ENOMEM(12).
>
> This patch simply changed this to return -ENOMEM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> index 6c7de74..22b9582 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
> #include "ion.h"
> #include "ion_priv.h"
>
> -#define ION_CMA_ALLOCATE_FAILED -1
> -
> struct ion_cma_heap {
> struct ion_heap heap;
> struct device *dev;
> @@ -59,7 +57,7 @@ static int ion_cma_allocate(struct ion_heap *heap, struct ion_buffer *buffer,
>
> info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ion_cma_buffer_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!info)
> - return ION_CMA_ALLOCATE_FAILED;
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> info->cpu_addr = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, len, &(info->handle),
> GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ZERO);
> @@ -88,7 +86,7 @@ static int ion_cma_allocate(struct ion_heap *heap, struct ion_buffer *buffer,
> dma_free_coherent(dev, len, info->cpu_addr, info->handle);
> err:
> kfree(info);
> - return ION_CMA_ALLOCATE_FAILED;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> static void ion_cma_free(struct ion_buffer *buffer)
>

Happy to see cleanup

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>