[PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT

[Peter Senna Tschudin]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:18 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ah, that's rather unfortunate.
>
> Can you post the full asm listing, for all three cases?
Sure, but it would be 3 files of 70kb each. You can download them form:

http://petersenna.com/files/module_64.s.tar.xz

Let me know if this download method doesn't work for you.

module_64.s: Original file.
module_64-patched.s: With my patch
module_64-true.s: Changing -EFAULT by true

files were made with:
$ make arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.s

using:
gcc-powerpc64-linux-gnu-4.9.2-5.fc21.x86_64

>
> cheers
>
>



-- 
Peter