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Re: [PATCH] kvm:x86:Fix error handling in the function ioapic_write_indirect

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kvm:x86:Fix error handling in the function ioapic_write_indirect
Date 2015-08-12 14:50 +0200
Message-ID <pWDDI-4EJ-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 11/08/2015 19:39, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This fixes error handling in the function ioapic_write_indirect to
> properly check if the call to the function ioapoc_service service
> has failed by not returning the value zero to indicate success to
> check if this occurs when calling this particular function and if
> so return immediately to the caller of ioapic_write_indirect due
> to us no longer being able to continue the function
> ioapic_write_indirect after this call fails.

This is not true.

You are back to the older problem that you are not trying to understand
the functions you are modifying.


Paolo
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Re: [PATCH] kvm:x86:Fix error handling in the function  ioapic_write_indirect Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-08-12 14:50 +0200

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