Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: devices: phram.c: Fix use true/false for bool type

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:14:33 +0000

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 08:51:42AM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> Return type for security_extensions_enabled() is bool
> so use true/false.

This doesn't seem to bear any resemblence to the subject line.

> Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/nommu.c         |  2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c | 11 +++++------
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c b/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
> index 24ecf8d30a1e..1fed74f93c66 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline bool security_extensions_enabled(void)
>  	if ((read_cpuid_id() & 0x000f0000) == 0x000f0000)
>  		return cpuid_feature_extract(CPUID_EXT_PFR1, 4) ||
>  			cpuid_feature_extract(CPUID_EXT_PFR1, 20);
> -	return 0;
> +	return true;

This isn't explained in the commit.  You explain why it should return
true or false, but you don't explain why converting this from returning
0, aka false, to returning true is necessary.

>  }
>  
>  unsigned long setup_vectors_base(void)
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
> index 86ae13b756b5..931e5c2481b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
> @@ -239,27 +239,26 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val)
>  
>  	ret = parse_name(&name, token[0]);
>  	if (ret)
> -		goto exit;
> +		return ret;
>  
>  	ret = parse_num64(&start, token[1]);
>  	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(name);
>  		parse_err("illegal start address\n");
> -		goto parse_err;
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = parse_num64(&len, token[2]);
>  	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(name);
>  		parse_err("illegal device length\n");
> -		goto parse_err;
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = register_device(name, start, len);
>  	if (!ret)
>  		pr_info("%s device: %#llx at %#llx\n", name, len, start);
> +	else
> +		kfree(name);
>  
> -parse_err:
> -	kfree(name);
> -exit:
>  	return ret;
>  }

At least this partially matches the subject line but it looks unrelated
to the other changes.

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