[PATCH v1] io-mapping: Indicate mapping failure

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Tue Jul 21 15:56:43 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:34:26AM -0400, Michael J. Ruhl wrote:

Thanks for an update, my comments below.

> The !ATOMIC_IOMAP version of io_maping_init_wc will always return
> success, even when the ioremap fails.
> 
> Since the ATOMIC_IOMAP version returns NULL when the init fails, and
> callers check for a NULL return on error this is unexpected.
> 
> Return NULL on ioremap failure.
> 
> Fixes: cafaf14a5d8f ("io-mapping: Always create a struct to hold metadata about the io-mapping"

Missed parenthesis.

Still not visible why Fixes tag.
Provide also couple of lines of crash and add a paragraph about it.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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