[PATCH] cxl: Unlock on error in probe

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Fri May 5 17:46:05 AEST 2017


On 05/05/17 17:37, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 05:14:15PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
>> sem is a global and it looks like it's intended to be held after
>> device_open() returns and only released in device_close(), so this looks
>> wrong.
>>
>
> This doesn't affect the success path, it only means that if
> device_open() fails because we don't have enough free memory or whatever
> then we can try again later.

Argh, I completely missed the "return 0" above err1 and thought the 
success path fell through. My mistake, that's what I get for trying to 
review patches after staring at hardware simulation logs all day...

In that case, the patch looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

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andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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