Re: [PATCH] coresight: fix missing error code when trace ID is invalid

From: Suzuki K Poulose

Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 10:03:32 EST


On 08/05/2026 14:44, Leo Yan wrote:
On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 01:45:35PM +0800, Jie Gan wrote:

[...]

coresight_path_assign_trace_id(path, CS_MODE_SYSFS);
- if (!IS_VALID_CS_TRACE_ID(path->trace_id))
+ if (!IS_VALID_CS_TRACE_ID(path->trace_id)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
goto err_path;
+ }

On the top of this patch, could we do a further improvement?

Move IS_VALID_CS_TRACE_ID() into coresight_path_assign_trace_id() and
return 0 for success and < 0 for failures. As result, callers only
need to check the returned value.

Yes please ^

Cheers
Suzuki



For this patch:

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx>