[PATCH 3/4] hwmon: (occ) Start sequence number at one

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Wed Feb 10 05:12:49 AEDT 2021


On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:12:34AM -0600, Eddie James wrote:
> Initialize the sequence number at one, rather than zero, in order
> to prevent false matches with the zero-initialized OCC SRAM
> buffer before the OCC is fully initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

For now I'll assume that the series has to be submitted together,
and that this won't happen through the hwmon branch.

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> index 7a5e539b567b..ee0c5d12dfdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> @@ -1150,6 +1150,8 @@ int occ_setup(struct occ *occ, const char *name)
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
> +	/* start with 1 to avoid false match with zero-initialized SRAM buffer */
> +	occ->seq_no = 1;
>  	mutex_init(&occ->lock);
>  	occ->groups[0] = &occ->group;
>  
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 


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