[PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT
Peter Senna Tschudin
peter.senna at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 19:18:56 AEST 2015
Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
undesired effect of returning true. Replace -EINVAL by false in a
bool-returning function.
The diff of the .s file before and after the change (using cross
compilation) starts with:
440,441c440,441
< .L43:
< li 3,1 # D.25775,
---
> .L42:
> li 3,0 # D.25775,
...
while if -EFAULT is replaced by true, the diff is empty.
There is only one call site, and it expects a boolean value:
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:129:
if (!is_module_trampoline(tramp)) {
pr_err("Not a trampoline\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
This issue was found by the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
<smpl>
@@
identifier f;
constant C;
typedef bool;
@@
bool f (...){
<+...
* return -C;
...+>
}
</smpl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna at gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 6838451..a94a5f1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ bool is_module_trampoline(u32 *p)
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(ppc64_stub_insns) != sizeof(ppc64_stub_mask));
if (probe_kernel_read(insns, p, sizeof(insns)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ return false;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ppc64_stub_insns); i++) {
u32 insna = insns[i];
--
2.1.0
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