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Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: ret needs to be an int for -ve return value from regmap_update_bits

From Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: ret needs to be an int for -ve return value from regmap_update_bits
Date 2016-09-12 04:10 +0200
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On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 09:36 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Macro regmap_update_bits can return a -ve on an error value so ret
> needs to be an integer rather than a bool type.
> 
> Fixes warning found by static analysis with cppcheck:
> [drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c:192]: (warning) Comparison of
>   a boolean expression with an integer other than 0 or 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Thanks Colin. Arnd independently discovered this bug and Joel and I
have CC'ed you on our responses there - the intent is to take Arnd's
patch.

Cheers,

Andrew

> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> index 7d461fc..75935ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static bool aspeed_sig_expr_set(const struct aspeed_sig_expr *expr,
>  				bool enable, struct regmap *map)
>  {
>  	int i;
> -	bool ret;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	ret = aspeed_sig_expr_eval(expr, enable, map);
>  	if (ret)

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[PATCH] pinctrl: ret needs to be an int for -ve return value from regmap_update_bits Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2016-09-11 10:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: ret needs to be an int for -ve return value  from regmap_update_bits Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> - 2016-09-12 04:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: ret needs to be an int for -ve return value from regmap_update_bits Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-09-13 10:50 +0200

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