Re: [RFT 3/7] firmware: make fw_add_devm_name() return 0 if cache present

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently fw_add_devm_name() returns 1 if the firmware cache
> was already set. This makes it complicated for us to check for
> correctness. It is actually non-fatal if the firmware cache
> is already setup, so just return 0, and simplify the checkers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

That'll teach me to read all the patches first. ;)

Honestly, I'd just fold this into the prior patch: there's only one
caller and it's exactly about checking the return value.

-Kees

> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_loader.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader.c
> index 48932581c70c..a385622bf3e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static int fw_add_devm_name(struct device *dev, const char *name)
>
>         fwn = fw_find_devm_name(dev, name);
>         if (fwn)
> -               return 1;
> +               return 0;
>
>         fwn = devres_alloc(fw_name_devm_release, sizeof(struct fw_name_devm),
>                            GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ int assign_fw(struct firmware *fw, struct device *device,
>         if (device && (opt_flags & FW_OPT_UEVENT) &&
>             !(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOCACHE)) {
>                 ret = fw_add_devm_name(device, fw_priv->fw_name);
> -               if (ret && ret != 1) {
> +               if (ret) {
>                         mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
>                         return ret;
>                 }
> --
> 2.16.2
>



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Kees Cook
Pixel Security